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The one-time pad and perfect secrecy

There exists an encryption scheme that is mathematically impossible to break, even with infinite computing power: the one-time pad. This course explores how it works, why Shannon proved that it offers perfect secrecy, and why, despite that, we almost never use it.

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Table of contents

  1. 01

    Perfect encryption

  2. 02

    Why we (almost) never use it