Unfortunately, it is difficult to use this cipher in practice since the key must be as long as the message that needs to be transmitted. If the key is smaller than the message and the message is divided into blocks that have the same length as the key, then the scheme becomes less secure since the same key is used to decrypt different parts of the message. In practice, `XOR` is often one of the basic operations used by encryption schemes. To be usable, the deployed encryption schemes use keys that are composed of a small number of bits, typically 56, 64, 128, 256, ...
