[Cryptography] Shortening block cipher length...

Peter Gutmann pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Tue Jul 20 14:11:58 EDT 2021


Ray Dillinger <bear at sonic.net> writes:

>I don't think NaCl as it is today is vulnerable

Unless it's changed recently, the NaCL API assumes the nonce is user-supplied,
which means it's completely vulnerable.  It's RC4 as used in the 1990s all
over again.

Peter.



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