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| From | Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: creating byte[] with subfields |
| Date | 2013-01-20 11:01 -0600 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <kdh7u6$5vj$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On 1/19/2013 11:46 PM, Daniel Pitts wrote: > On 1/18/13 11:24 PM, Roedy Green wrote: >> On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 15:16:45 -0800, Daniel Pitts >> <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> wrote, quoted or indirectly >> quoted someone who said : >> >>> FWIW, XOR encryption is more like XOR obfuscation. It doesn't actually >>> encrypt, at least not the naive approach to it. >> >> It depends. I just finished a project which I will be permitted to >> release into the public domain in a year which uses one time pads, >> which XOR messages with strings of truly random bits. >> >> The only way you can crack it is to crack the machine at either end or >> intercept the key transfer. You can't do it just by studying >> messages. >> > It really does depend. No, it doesn't. A one-time pad is provably 100% perfectly secure, and is the only cryptographic method to be so proven. The requirements is that you have a string of random bits as long as the message you send and you never reuse those random bits ever again. -- Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth
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creating byte[] with subfields Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-01-18 00:35 -0800
Re: creating byte[] with subfields Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2013-01-18 08:31 -0700
Re: creating byte[] with subfields Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2013-01-18 10:29 -0700
Re: creating byte[] with subfields Nigel Wade <nmw@ion.le.ac.uk> - 2013-01-18 16:23 +0000
Re: creating byte[] with subfields Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2013-01-18 10:53 -0800
Re: creating byte[] with subfields Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-01-18 14:23 -0800
Re: creating byte[] with subfields Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2013-01-18 15:16 -0800
Re: creating byte[] with subfields Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-01-18 23:24 -0800
Re: creating byte[] with subfields Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2013-01-19 21:46 -0800
Re: creating byte[] with subfields Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2013-01-20 11:01 -0600
Re: creating byte[] with subfields Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-20 12:54 -0500
Re: creating byte[] with subfields Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-20 12:51 -0500
Re: creating byte[] with subfields Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-19 13:34 -0500
Re: creating byte[] with subfields Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-18 20:33 -0500
Re: creating byte[] with subfields Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-18 20:48 -0500
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