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Self-Renewing One-Time Pad: Information-Theoretic Messaging Beyond Initial Pad Exhaustion

2026 · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

The classical limitation of one-time-pad (OTP) cryptography is the key-distribution problem: to send n bits of plaintext, the parties must already share n bits of pre-distributed key. Once the pad is exhausted, the parties must …