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One time pad: why is it useless in practice? The symmetric cryptosystem one-time pad (OTP) seems to be very beautiful since it is perfectly secret according to Shannon. Many books, however, point out the main drawback: one must create a secret key the same length as the plaintext. For this reason, the concept of perfect secrecy has these days been abandoned, and we prefer other cryptosystems.   Now, for example, suppose I want to encode my text message with the ASCII scheme, and moreover suppose that this plaintext is 10 gigabytes long, therefore (using an OTP) the key must be the same length, 10 gigabytes. I think, however, this is a ''sustainable price'' because I'm sure that the ciphertext can't be attacked.  Practically, I don't understand why having such long keys with an OTP is a big disadvantage if we reach "the dream"-- namely, perfect secrecy. Nowadays the storage of information is very easy, so what is the real problem? I can, for example, share the "long key" in person. I listened to this on audiobook and it was great.  The premise was a human ends up travelling to an alien planet. The aliens have a perimeter to their 'base' that is under constant attack from the planet's animals. It is revealed towards the end that there is some sort of signal being transmitted that is making all the animals and plant life attack a certain point on the planet (where the aliens are).   Other major plot points I remember: The human traveller falls in love with an alien. The aliens have a sort of virtual training environment that simulates life outside the perimeter, where plants attack you etc. There is a secondary alien group that the human ends up with, and although they are rivals to other group, they have a trade set up.   Any help much appreciated! Thanks. Deleting comments under posts in the mod queue should be easier Ever since mods gained the ability to undelete comments, deleting them has become easier as the confirmation dialog was removed.  However, this is not the case in the mod queue &mdash; I still get a confirmation dialog for each comment I want to delete in the queue under a custom-flagged post (single-comment flags can be deleted just fine). And since this is the place from where I delete comments the most, it can be annoying.  In addition, the "purge comments" button, when invoked from the queue, refreshes it, so I have to scroll back down, remember which post I just purged, and mark the flag as helpful. Usually not a big issue but if there are multiple "obsolete comments" flags, then it can get confusing.  Could the workflow for comment thread moderation from within the queue be improved? Ideally, make comment deletion work like everywhere else on the site, and make the purge button AJAX-based like the comment deletes. Why is it disadvantageous in graduate admissions to have a higher degree? indicates that holders of a master’s degree are held to higher standards when it comes to graduate admissions. The stated requirements for some graduate programs () also outright exclude applicants with doctoral degrees. These seem to be saying that holding a higher degree prior to application is a disadvantage (a fatal one in the case of a PhD). This also applies to private universities: Stanford  (at least in computer science); .  I don't understand why:   If there are two applicants, Alice and Bob, who have achieved largely similar things, it seems logical that both should have a roughly equal chance of being admitted. However, based on JeffE's answer, if Alice has a Masters degree while Bob does not, it's Bob that gets admitted instead of Alice. JeffE's answer even indicates that if Alice has achieved slightly more than Bob, it's still Bob that gets admitted.  If graduate admissions is looking for students that are capable of succeeding in its program, then Alice should be more likely to succeed than Bob since she's already had some experience of graduate study. This should be even more the case if Alice already has a PhD – if she can do it once, she should be able to do it again.    JeffE's answer indicates that since Alice has had more opportunities than Bob, she should also be held to higher standard. However it should also be true that Alice has already achieved what Bob has yet to and in fact might not be able to achieve. Further, JeffE's answer seems to be saying that Alice should do the academic equivalent of financial engineering and pass her graduate-level courses &amp; thesis without getting a master’s degree even if she qualifies for it, which sounds silly.  As for applicants with PhD degrees, my first guess would be that this is because , and the university is acting in the applicant's best interests. However if this is the case, then this is effectively telling the applicant "I know what you want better than you do", which also sounds silly. UC Berkeley's requirements also seem to be saying that if someone with a CV worthy of a tenured position were to apply for a PhD student position, the university will say "no" even though it's clearly better in their best interests (in terms of research output) to say "yes".   Presumably I'm misunderstanding something because if this behavior were irrational, it would already have been changed. What am I missing?  EDIT: I wonder if things are different in programs where the student is involved in research directly without spending time on coursework? What do the words 'RELATED' and 'ESTABLISHED' individually signify in RELATED,ESTABLISHED state in iptables? How to write a Hello World application in Java? Why does a 12V 2A adapter measure only 0.358A on a multimeter? I assume that the multimeter should read 2A, why is it only 0.358A? If this is how it is supposed to be, why? If I add a load, how do I measure that this load is being drawn, does the multimeter need to be in series? How to write the Fibonacci Sequence? How to use Launchctl for schedule application I try to work with Launchctl and have a question:  How can I set up an application to run in a few minutes using Launchctl? (for example, open the program MyApp.app with arguments "hello" "world" Every 10 minutes)  I know that it can easily be done by creating Launch Agent, I looking for a way to do it using Launchctl directly to programmatically. Render not showing UV texture I have added a texture to a cube in the UV editor and it shows up fine in textured view  But when I render it there is no texture  What have I done wrong? Prepositions used with "inquire" How to read the following Itinerary What do the abbreviations mean in the following itinerary:     2  EK 641 L 29NOV 2 KBLDXB HK1       I  1630 1905   *1A/E*                      3  EK 344 L 29NOV 2 DXBKUL HK1       3  2140 0835+1 *1A/E*                      4  MH 704 V 30NOV 3 KULMNL HK1       M  1245 1630   *1A/E*                      5  UA 184 Y 01DEC 4 MNLGUM HK1       1  2255 0440+1 *1A/E*                      6  UA 155 Y 02DEC 5 GUMTKK HK1          0820 1008   especially, the numbers (2,2,3,4,5) before KBLDXB, KULMNL.... The letters and numbers before time (I, 3, M, 1) *1A/E*? Removing all 'stable' theme's CSS from a Drupal 8 custom theme I would like to remove all CSSs automatically included from stable theme:  /core/themes/stable/css/system/components/*   I can remove them one by one inside the .info.yml file:  stylesheets-remove:   - 'core/themes/stable/css/system/components/ajax-progress.module.css'   - 'core/themes/stable/css/system/components/autocomplete-loading.module.css'   - ...   Is there a way to remove all of them at once?   Something like:  stylesheets-remove:   - 'core/themes/stable/css/system/components/*' Do "Best by: XX-XX-XX" foods have an expiration date? How long will foods that have "Best by: XX-XX-XX" on the product last past that date?  I have tried looking online, and all I can find is anecdotal evidence, which isn't very assuring for me since there seems to be no specific "x food will expire y weeks after its best by date".  Is there a rule of thumb or some guide out there that can tell me how long a "best by" food will last? Or is it safe to assume that they never expire, since it's not actually labelled on the product? How can we prove that a binomial coefficient $n\choose m$is divisible by the ratio of $n$ and $\gcd(n,m)$? How old is SpongeBob? How old is SpongeBob? I don't mean how old is the series, I mean what is SpongeBob's age if he were a real person. I ask because his age seems to be ambiguous in the show.   He has a full-time job He has his own house He is always referred to as a kid (especially in the movie) He acts childish and immature In one episode, he was pretending to be an adult/grown-up Preventing reverse search engines from finding the origin of your image? I am planning to make a game, where I give the user an anime related image and they have to guess where its from.  However, most of the images, specially from popular anime are easy to use on Google reverse search to find and pin point the anime.  I've tried to see if I could make so it would not recognize the image but unhappily my tricks were not good enough.  Original image:    Grey-scale with horizontal flip:    Watermarking:    Puzzling the image with grey-scale:    Grey-scale with horizontal and vertical flip worked for this image but doesn't always work:    Also the above mentioned methods are rather easy for people to guess the anime.  I would like to know if there any good trick, that I could use on my images to make so it would not work on reverse search engines and yet not be so overcomplicated that I can implement on my program.  For example grey-scale, cropping, flipping are rather easy things to achieve in C#. Methane’s absorption bands are centered at 3.2 and 7.2 microns -- far off the peak of the Planck spectrum for a 290 K blackbody near 16 microns.  Moreover, its absorption bands overlap with the water absorption region.  So why is methane considered a stronger greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, which has an absorption band at 15 microns? Is Bezout's lemma enough to confirm the GCD of a number. Is Bezout's lemma enough to confirm the GCD of a number?  So suppose we have $$ax+by=z$$ does this mean $$\gcd(a,b)=z$$ Replace \input{fileX} by the content of fileX automatically Suppose I have a document with multiple include or input statements  \input{fileA} \input{fileB}   etc.   Is there an easy way to generate a single .tex file where \input{fileA} is replaced by the actual content of fileA etc. without copying it manually?