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Nov 21, 2025
The Original OTP: Inside the Only Encryption Proven to Be Unbreakable
The OTP (One-time Pad) encryption technique was first described by Frank Miller in 1882. The process involves combining a plain text message with a secret key, known as the "pad" Each character of the plain text is combined with its corresponding character from the pad. It is arguably the only encryption technique mathematically proven to be unbreakable
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