by Ciro Santilli (@cirosantilli, 37)
The only perfect cryptosystem!
The problem is that you need a shared key as large as the message.
Systems like advanced Encryption Standard allow us to encrypt things larger than the key, but the tradeoff is that they could be possibly broken, as don't have any provably secure symmetric-key algorithms as of 2020.

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One-time pad by Wikipedia Bot 0 1970-01-01
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The one-time pad (OTP) is a theoretically unbreakable encryption technique that uses a key that is as long as the message being encrypted. Here are key characteristics and principles behind the one-time pad: 1. **Key Usage**: In the one-time pad, a random key or "pad" is generated. This key must be statistically random, as long as the message, and used only once.
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