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by minitech
2259 days ago
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Slowness and complexity, it looks like! Unlike a prefix of zero bytes, the MAC has to be compared in constant time; there are more moving parts; it seems like there might be a birthday problem problem where two ids with colliding IVs (50% chance of existing among 5 billion ids, noticeable without needing the key) will be XORed against the same encrypted counter? |
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