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by hannob 2709 days ago
> Pentesters sometimes go out of their way to use 7z because it actually does encrypt with a real cipher. And, I guess for what we're doing with it, 7z is fine.

Well, it's a "real" cipher, but with a legacy, unauthenticated cipher mode. This means basically as soon as you encrypt any active content you can have an attack similar to efail.

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I agree, this is a good attack to game out.