Re: On the Construction of Pseudo-OTP

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staym@accessdata.com
Wed, 13 Jan 1999 17:55:05 -0700


The reason it's not an OTP is that the key is the URL and not the OTP
itself. An OTP has exactly the same number of bits as the information
you're trying to hide. A URL has a much smaller (although gargantuan)
keyspace. Therefore, it must be a stream cipher and not an OTP.

-- 
Mike Stay
Cryptographer / Programmer
AccessData Corp.
mailto:staym@accessdata.com


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