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		caf on Dec 11, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “We cannot trust” Intel and Via’s chip-based crypt... A block cipher cannot produce the same output block for two distinct input blocks because it is reversible.

acqq on Dec 12, 2013 [–]

So "just" an order of 2 to 128 block samples has to be collected to see that it's generated? Good luck with that.

caf on Dec 12, 2013 | [–]

Nope, AES has a 128-bit block size so you "only" need about 2^64 blocks.

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