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    Quote Originally Posted by anon
    As far as I know, historically one-time pads have indeed been broken (ones used by Soviet spies). But that was only because the opponents got hold of the key-books and / or the Soviets reused keys for several messages.
    That is why I stated that "the main problem concerning the use of a one time pad is key management".

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    Oh, and besides problems with key distribution, usage and storage, there's also the problem of key generation: the keys really must be random.
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