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Science Geek

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7. Exactly

Reply to mike_c (Reply #1)

Sat Nov 24, 2012, 04:40 PM

Nov 2012

One time pads were used extensively during WWII and messages enciphered with them are almost impossible to crack. It was, and is, an extremely good encryption method.

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presumably an old one-time pad with no extant key? mike_c Nov 2012 #1

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