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by im3w1l 2485 days ago
IMO, the issue is that the publicly known "brands" only specify a primitive and not the whole thing. This is bad for implementers who are forced into a choice they aren't qualified to make, and it's bad for users who see AES256 or something and think they are safe, not realizing that it's used with an unsafe mode.