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Comment by midas007

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.

parent midas007 12 years ago

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