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Re:Confidential VMs by jiripospisil on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @09:41AM (#23831824)
Another paper that mentions AES in the ECB mode is "Secure Encrypted Virtualization is Unsecure!" [0]

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.05090.pdf

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Re:Confidential VMs by yonixw on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @12:54PM (#23834430)
Simple picture to demonstrate: [1]. Simply put, ECB does not use different salt every block.

[1] https://ctf-wiki.github.io/ctf-wiki/crypto/blockcipher/mode/...

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