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Re:Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system... by XorNot on Sunday October 05, 2025 @06:11PM (#45485746)
The risk that the key leaks through an implementation bug or a human intelligence source.

Exfiltrating terabytes of data is difficult, exfiltrating 32 bytes is much less so.

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Re:Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system... by Avamander on Sunday October 05, 2025 @06:14PM (#45485765)
That's very far from the encryption itself being broken though. If that were the claim, I would have had no complaints.
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