Angelo’s Notepad

Today I was telling Ryan something that my brother had told me a while ago: that they discovered certain particles traveled backward in time. Of course, he didn’t really believe me, so we looked it up online. I was sort of right (at least right enough). We found something from “the coolest stud at the MIT univeristy“:

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I did a little bit of research on One Time Pads (OTP). I guess from a theoretical standpoint, they are absolutely secure, but I don’t think it’s very realistic. The problem is the assumptions they make are unrealistic:
* The key must be 100% purely random
* The key must be transmitted securely (!!!)
* The key or any portion of the key can only be used once
* The key must be the same length as the message.

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