Simple encryption proposal. Comments ?

[Skip Montanaro]

    >> |import string, whrandom, cPickle, os

    Lulu> This rules out a OTP.  A one-time pad, by definition, is an
    Lulu> encryption against a true random key or the same length as the
    Lulu> plaintext.

Not that it will make the OP's code any more of a OTP, but starting in 2.3,
the default PRNG will be the Mersenne Twister.  As I understand it, it
should be significantly better than the current PRNG.

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