Re: creating byte[] with subfields
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.
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