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namibj on Feb 29, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: If your cipher were secure, this image wouldn't ha...

A fair comparison would be e.g. CTR or incrementing the key for each block. This is a problem much lower.

bitexploder on Feb 29, 2020 [–]

That’s true. The analysis isn’t wrong, but it isn’t an algorithmic analysis. It’s just a quick statistical analysis that detects inherently bad properties for crypto. That was more my point. This kind of analysis isn’t bad but it’s just a sniff test.

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