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		madez on April 14, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Cryptographic Doom Principle 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.

im3w1l on April 18, 2015 [–]

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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