aes
3 posts tagged aes.
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How AES Breaks in Real Life: The Attacks That Never Touched the Cipher
AES-the-cipher has never been broken in the field -- its deployments have. KRACK, repeated GCM nonces, and cache timing broke the wrapper, never the block.
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The Fortress and the Afterthought: How AES Would Break at Its Key Schedule
AES is not broken -- but if it ever were, the crack would start at its linear key schedule, not its celebrated round function. A structural cryptanalysis tour.
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The Ciphertext Was Unbreakable. The Attacker Rewrote It Anyway: A Field Guide to Block Cipher Modes
Every block cipher mode -- ECB, CBC, CFB, OFB, CTR -- answers only confidentiality, never integrity. A field guide to why, the famous breaks, and the AEAD fix.