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Re:Show HN: 1-FPS encrypted screen sharing for introverts by hatsunearu on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @07:50PM (#41176769)
Is the statement just that if you use a random value for a nonce rather than some guaranteed never-used-once value, it's possible to get a collision faster than the "natural" block collision complexity (half block size or something like that)?
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Re:Show HN: 1-FPS encrypted screen sharing for introverts by conradludgate on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @03:25AM (#41179008)
It's a birthday attack principle. With only 96bits after roughly a billion messages with the key and random IVs, you start reaching realistic probabilities that you will reuse an IV
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Re:Show HN: 1-FPS encrypted screen sharing for introverts by irundebian on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @08:35AM (#41180734)
And how you will get a billion messages with 1 frame per second?
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