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midas007 | 12 years ago

Indistinguishable from a PRF A good block cipher satisfied this property, otherwise it's not a PRF and insecure.

Hair-splitting, really. Actual OTP is an imaginary construction that requires an endless supply of truly random bits that have to be securely stored or somehow recreated during decryption. It shifts the hard part to that fn, and just XORs the result with the pt or ct block.

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tptacek|12 years ago

No. What you've done here is redefined "OTP" to mean "any stream cipher". No.

midas007|12 years ago

That's the whole point of OTP as an imaginary construction!

It's a way to take any block cipher and turn it into a stream cipher with the power of XOR.

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