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Malleability of an additive one-time pad
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If an interceptor knows that an additive one-time-pad ciphertext
C
encrypts plaintext
P
and wants it to decrypt as
P
′
, replacing it by
C
′
=
C
−
P
+
P
′
(87)
works without knowing the key, since
C
′
=
P
′
+
K
.
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