Reply to post: Re: Evil one time pad

Line by line, how the US anti-encryption bill will kill our privacy, security

Sir Runcible Spoon

Re: Evil one time pad

"but wouldn't that make your "evil message" (now being used as the one-time-pad and containing structured data) easier to decrypt?"

I don't see why it should. If I've understood correctly the fake pad is just to convert something you know (the encrypted message) into something else you know (the fake unencrypted message).

The original pad will will decrypt the original encrypted message to the real one. All the fakery stuff only relates to the faked message so should reveal nothing about the real pad or message.

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