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Encryption via one-time pad

Synopsis

package require Tcl  8.6

package require tcl::transform::core  ?1?

package require tcl::transform::otp  ?1?

::tcl::transform::otp chan keychanw keychanr

Description

The tcl::transform::otp package provides a command creating a channel transformation which uses externally provided one-time pads to perform encryption (on writing) and decryption (on reading).

A related transformations in this module is tcl::transform::rot.

The internal TclOO class implementing the transform handler is a sub-class of the tcl::transform::core framework.

API

::tcl::transform::otp chan keychanw keychanr

This command creates a one-time pad based encryption transformation on top of the channel chan and returns its handle.

The two channels keychanw and keychanr contain the one-time pads for the write and read directions, respectively. Their contents are reads and xored with the bytes written to and read from the channel.

Bugs, Ideas, Feedback

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Keywords

channel transformation, cipher, decryption, encryption, one time pad, otp, reflected channel, tip 230, transformation, virtual channel, xor

Category

Channels

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tcllib Reflected/virtual channel support