Surely using an MD5 hash as a 'one-time pad' for encryption isn't very wise? The whole point of one-time pad encryption is that the 'pad' is truely random (the advice is to use a truely random bit stream from a hardware device)? Also, for this kind of encryption to be very secure, the pad has to be at least as long as the plaintext because repitition allows for easier anlysis.
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Surely using an MD5 hash as a 'one-time pad' for encryption isn't very wise? The whole point of one-time pad encryption is that the 'pad' is truely random (the advice is to use a truely random bit stream from a hardware device)? Also, for this kind of encryption to be very secure, the pad has to be at least as long as the plaintext because repitition allows for easier anlysis.