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Motivated by a potentially flawed deployment of the one time pad in a recent quantum cryptographic application securing a bank transfer [1], we show how to implement a statistically secure system for message passing, that is, a channel with negligible failure rate secure against unbounded adversaries, using a one time pad based cryptosystem. We prove the security of our system in the framework put forward by Backes, Pfitzmann, and Waidner [2].
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Raub, D., Steinwandt, R., Müller-Quade, J. (2005). On the Security and Composability of the One Time Pad. In: Vojtáš, P., Bieliková, M., Charron-Bost, B., Sýkora, O. (eds) SOFSEM 2005: Theory and Practice of Computer Science. SOFSEM 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3381. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30577-4_32
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