Twitter and One Time Pad Encrypted Messages

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Interesting. Can't tell form that page what exactly is going on, but it reminds me of something I did with del.icio.us some years ago with a project called De.linque.nt

http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=123&thread=1...

How could you even suggest that rot13 is similar to one time pad encryption? They could not be more different. One is kindergarten crypto, while the other is mathematically proven to be unbreakable.

How could you even suggest that rot13 is similar to one time pad encryption?

That's a really good question, and I'm glad I never did it. My code used rot13 for demo purposes (as explained in my post); actual usage involved a proper crypto JS lib (as explained in my post).

Some assembly required, though. I left it up to users to decide what crypto lib they wanted to use.

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