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by shim__ 236 days ago
Encryption does not make bit flips obivous, authenticated encryption would.
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A single bit flip would mess up the block, and hopefully the rest of the stream and the padding, no?
Most unauthenticated encryption modes only mess up a few bits of a block, sometimes the following block too. A few only flip the exact bit in the plaintext.