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		algorias on Dec 11, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: CipherSaber - A 'political' encryption cipher A one time pad consumes as many bits as the message length. It has nothing to do with the bits of information that can theoretically be stored in a deck of cards.

batgaijin on Dec 12, 2012 [–]

use something like pi to create a number of specific length (twice as long as the file?) and permute it according to the card order?

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