XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 30/12/2025 08:08, Diego Garcia wrote:   
   > On Tue, 30 Dec 2025 01:13:13 -0500, c186282 wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >>     These days we can kind of just OVERPOWER 1940s   
   >>     ciphers ... but mostly it's just that, overpower,   
   >>     not so much in the realm of any General Solution.   
   >>   
   >   
   > The one-time pad (OTP) cannot be broken by anything now   
   > or in the future.   
   >   
   Even OTP is susceptible to statistical analysis of e.g. message length   
   or time and freqency of transmission.   
      
      
      
   > But the OTP is very clumsy to implement and it is this   
   > clumsiness that has caused the development of everything   
   > else.   
   >   
      
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