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One-Time Pad Problems
Disadvantage:
- Both S and R need to obtain pads of keys in a perfectly secure manner.
- Pads must be kept in perfect sync. (interception of a single message can render entire pad useless)
- Requires an unlimited sequence of keys (random values)
- Corollary: must be a truly random sequence.
(Pseudo Random Number Generators are not Random)