/many-time-pad-attack

Attacking A Many Time Pad - Cryptography

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Attacking A Many Time Pad - Cryptography

This code investigates the properties of the one time pad - specifically that it can easily be broken if the same key is used more than once!

Given 10 ciphertexts encrypted using the same key, we can break the encryption, and generate all the plaintexts

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2017 Justin Womersley

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