In a recent TechCrunch article I was quoted calling the one-time pad a “unicorn”. Inevitably, I was roundly criticized. But what none of the commenters (or myself) realized, however, was how ...
It’s a concern for Europeans as it is for people elsewhere in the world: there have been suggestions among governments to either outlaw, curtail, or backdoor strong end-to-end encryption. There are ...
One-time pads are the holy grail of cryptography—they are impossible to crack, even in principle. They work by adding a set of random digits to a message thereby creating a ciphertext that looks ...