Re: Any Dream Will Do - Promotion - Adacrypt

A OTP is not "unusable". It merely has its "impracticalities". It is
certainly not proven to be redundant by your system. OTPs were, however,
used between the US and the USSR during the Cold War for nuclear-related
communications.
If, by a "displacement cipher" you are referring to a "transposition
cipher", then I, a novice in this field, have to point out the weaknesses in
your cipher. A transposition cipher is certainly crackable, for the Index
of Coincidence would give it away.
The "Applied Cryptography" book by Schneier, as the active field of
cryptology develops, may need to be updated, edited, or revised, but it is
not in the need of being "rewritten and rationalized", and certainly not by
someone's transposition cipher.
-Mindraker


"AdaCrypt" <austein.obyrne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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7) The One-time Pad (always unusable - now redundant altogether)
The large book of "Applied Cryptography" will need to be rewritten and
rationalised.
Have a good day. - adacrypt


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