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Nillion NMC: A Secure Processing Layer for Web3 | Miguel de Vega

Hidden Forces

CHAPTER

What Is a One Time Mask?

The idea with a one time pad is that you have a light, say, a number of pits, and then you have a random string of the same length of pits. A one time mask would be something very similar but using explonitiations and multiplications. The blinding factors are never stored in a single place; they are actually shreaded into shares or fragments across the network. Only if enough notes colluted a massive attack, which would cost a lot of money, would those notes be able to reconstruct the blind factors and unmasking the secrets.

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