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I was in the audience, and if I ever knew how one should use an IV, I forgot. The article would have been more valuable to me if it gave a summary of what IVs
by recursive 9y ago
I was in the audience, and if I ever knew how one should use an IV, I forgot. The article would have been more valuable to me if it gave a summary of what IVs are instead of what they aren't.
- snakeanus 9y agoYou were probably not the intended audience then. It seems to me that this is intended for people who have some form of knowledge about cryptography already. In any case, there are many articles about IVs and how to use them already so I do not see the point of explaining what an IV is yet again in that article.
- jlebar 9y agoWhat makes you think were the author's intended audience, exactly? It sounds like the author intended their article for people who know what an IV is. You don't, and, while there's no shame in that, it does seem to indicate that you're not in the audience. This is like me complaining that I can't understand Terry Tao's blog when it's posted to HN. It's not written for me.