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  • A worked example of a one-time pad is needed, showing how two different pads can be used to decrypt a ciphertext into contradictory plaintexts.
  • The history of the invention of the one-time pad
  • An explanation of why, when hearing that a piece of encryption software uses a "one-time pad", most cryptographers burst into peals of hysterical laughter (cf. Snake oil (cryptography).
  • Maybe instructions on how to make a pad by hand.
  • Section on quantum/post quantum crypto. (if somebody could look it over that would be great)
  • Cite uncited sections
  • The mistake found in Shannon's proof and the counterexample should be included

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