Comment by AlotOfReading
10 hours ago
No, a FPE algorithm is a cryptographic construct that uses an existing block cipher (e.g. AES-256) to construct a cryptographically secure permutation of the input without length extension. That is, input size = output size, for all sizes. Ideally, if input size >= block size of the underlying cipher, the resulting permutation is no weaker than just using the cipher directly.
You could use FPE for multi-megabyte permutations, but I don't know why you would.
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