Cryptography/Faults

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The strength of your encryption method is based not only on your encryption method, but also on your ability to utilize the encryption method.

For example, the One-Time Pad method of encryption is the only completely unbreakable encryption method, but it is based on a rule that the key to the One-Time Pad is completely random.

If this method is implemented with a key that is not completely random in generation then the door is open to forms of breaking the encryption through statistical analysis.

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