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dg-latacora
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| XOR, as we've just defined it, operates only on single bits or Boolean | ||
| values. Since we usually deal with values comprised of many bits, most | ||
| programming languages provide a “bitwise XOR” operator: an operator that | ||
| XOR, as defined, only operates on single bits or Boolean |
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"as defined" is a little tricky. XOR is a binary operation so doesn't have to be single bits or Boolean values.
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| more) recipients. We can compute the ciphertext by taking the bitwise | ||
| XOR of the two sequences of bits. | ||
| Suppose we translate our plaintext into a sequence of bits. We | ||
| have the pad of random bits that are shared between the sender and the recipients (one or |
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"translate our plaintext into a sequence of bits" doesn't give the pad to the sender and the recipient.
also that needs to be assumed
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