Which One Time Pad Cipher Would Be "Most Unbreakable" ?

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The discussion centers on the security of One Time Pad (OTP) ciphers, specifically comparing two formats: modular addition and double key format. Both formats are deemed equivalent in cryptographic strength due to the inherent randomness of OTPs, which makes them unbreakable by traditional methods. However, the double key format offers marginally better protection against message interception, as it incorporates an additional layer of encryption through superencipherment. This extra layer helps obscure message traffic analysis, enhancing overall communication security.

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Which of the two One Time Pad formats would be most secure ? This one ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad With modular addition or following double key format . Message --> Key -->Key --> Cipher Text
For the same message HELLO. ( Each letter in alphabet is randomly keyed to A --> Z Then again randomly keyed to cipher text. ( repeating message letters are given numbers in first key)
HELLO ------------ message
KWB9J-------------key1
PXNVG------------ key2/cipher text
 
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Since you're using a one-time pad, then it seems that they would be equivalent. One-time pads can't be broken by cryptographic methods since the base values are generated randomly.

However, should someone steal a copy of the one-time pad then the extra encryption would marginally protect the message but over time it would be susceptible to cryptographics methods.
 
For pure cryptographic strength they would be equivalent but for communications channel security an extra level of stream cipher encryption generated from another random key is usually added (superencipherment) to prevent message traffic analysis so there is a random data stream at all times when no OTP cipher text is sent.
 

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