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by upofadown 1336 days ago
AES starts with 16 bytes and then encrypts it to 16 bytes. So there is no good place to hide extra data. Even a single bit that did not meet the AES spec for the key in use would produce complete garbage at decryption. So attempts to leak the key would at least leave a mark.
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Unless it’s a timing based leak..