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by infraruby 3244 days ago
> I'm describing the CBC padding oracle attack.

Ah! Wouldn't that be "attackers can replace an original ciphertext with two chosen blocks"?

> I'm surprised this is the thing you want the link for, and not "1 biased bit destroys the security of a 256 bit nonce where the other 255 bits come from secure random".

IIRC the link for that is in your hiring post!