Comment on Mathematician warns NSA may be weakening next-gen encryption
bitwaba@lemmy.world 1 year agoTrue encryption does exist, it’s just that the encryption key is equally as long as the message itself which shows how impractical it is: if you have a method secure enough to send an encryption key of length X, why not just send the actual message of length X?
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s interesting. I’ve never heard that before. Do you have more information I can read about somewhere?
Axel_Fl@lemmy.world 1 year ago
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Is that what they’re talking about?
wandermind@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Yes