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Comment by hatsunearu

1 year ago

Is the statement just that if you use a random value for a nonce rather than some guaranteed never-used-once value, it's possible to get a collision faster than the "natural" block collision complexity (half block size or something like that)?

It's a birthday attack principle. With only 96bits after roughly a billion messages with the key and random IVs, you start reaching realistic probabilities that you will reuse an IV