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by tomatotomato37 2706 days ago
>I thought about reporting this at 7zip Sourceforge forums but then I vomited again when I saw a long thread of largely incoherent exchanges on how 7z should be using Twofish instead of AES-256 because...

Just because a bunch of tinfoils are arguing over whatever doesn't mean you shouldn't still report it! Just be sure to word the report more generic than usual so the hordes don't find the issue and turn it into a battleground before a serious maintainer can get to it
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3lbios 2705 days ago
Hi! I've reported it already on 7zip Sourceforge page. No response. In the forums I saw a thread someone had already started where the author said it's better to save 8bytes per archive than fix the IV ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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deepsun 2705 days ago
Well, at some point you get tired communicating with tinfoils, and it's reasonable to expect that author just didn't have a motivation/incentive to even start. Better spend time for something more productive.
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