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by notfed 730 days ago
The "fix" is to use a nonce misuse resistant cipher, of which AES-GCM-SIV is one.

But, AES-GCM-SIV requires two passes over the data, which isn't always ideal.

The goal of the CAESAR competition [1] was essentially to find alternatives. Whether that goal has been met is a bit unclear at the moment.

[1] https://competitions.cr.yp.to/caesar-submissions.html

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> The goal of the CAESAR competition [1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAESAR_Competition