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Re:The Cryptographic Doom Principle by madez on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @04:03PM (#9376898)
I think you confuse cipher with protocol.

To make it clear: for me a cipher is a bijective function on arrays of a predefined length.

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Re:The Cryptographic Doom Principle by im3w1l on Saturday April 18, 2015 @06:18AM (#9398897)
What do you propose doing with the initialization vectors then? Afaik, all commonly used encryption algorithms have those, for good reason too.
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