One Time Pad and the Short Key Dream
It provides a comprehensive overview of OTP and the 'Short Key Dream' for cryptography researchers, but is incremental as a survey.
This survey examines the One Time Pad (OTP) and its derivatives, focusing on the challenge of generating long random sequences from short keys, which impacts cryptography and related fields.
This is a survey on the One Time Pad (OTP) and its derivatives, from its origins to modern times. OTP, if used correctly, is (the only) cryptographic code that no computing power, present or future, can break. Naturally, the discussion shifts to the creation of long random sequences, starting from short ones, which can be easily shared. We could call it the Short Key Dream. Many problems inevitably arise, which affect many fields of computer science, mathematics and knowledge in general. This work presents a vast bibliography that includes fundamental classical works and current papers on randomness, pseudorandom number generators, compressibility, unpredictability and more.