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One-Time Pad

A fresh random shift for every letter, used once and destroyed. Unbreakable, and almost unusable.

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The story

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Print this page and you get a worksheet: how the cipher works, where it came from, and the puzzles to crack, with the machine and the menus left off.

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Longer, harder and written for grown-ups. Worth a look when this page runs out.

One-time pad