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Applications in cryptography

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I have studied cryptography since 1987 and worked professionally with it since 1999. I say the article is really bad and redundant. That is, it tries to describe things that already are described better in other Wikipedia articles. And the article seems to be abandoned by its creator.

The article seems to have the following contents:

• The first section describes a cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator (CSPRNG).

The second section is about stream ciphers:

• First it talks about the one-time pad encryption method.
• Then it says we can take a shortcut and use a stream cipher instead of the one-time pad.
• Then it says we can build a stream cipher by using a CSPRNG to produce the keystream for the stream cipher.
• Then it discusses security of CSPRNGs and if secure PRNGs really exist. That is, if one-way functions really exist or not.

So basically we can make the article a redirect to stream cipher or perhaps to CSPRNG. But since the article has such a bad name I would prefer that the article is deleted. David Göthberg 16:11, 27 July 2007 (UTC)