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by frereit 731 days ago
Correct. However, some implementations actually incorrectly refer to the nonce as an "IV" (initialization vector), where it's not so obvious.

Also, it's not entirely clear just how bad a reuse actually is. For example, in AES-CBC, reusing the IV has much less impact than reusing the nonce with AES-GCM.

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NIST calls it an IV (or at least did when it came out).