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Two technical notes: 1) AES CTR needs a nonce (number used once) not an IV. So a maximal LFSR works up until it repeats. People call it an IV, but strictly spe
by anologwintermut 13y ago
Two technical notes:
1) AES CTR needs a nonce (number used once) not an IV. So a maximal LFSR works up until it repeats. People call it an IV, but strictly speaking IV's need to also be random.
2) I have no idea if you need the replays in a very specific order or not. If you know the m being decrypted, then you always get the IVs. I suspect if given random parts of the output sequence of an LSFRs and the distances between them, it's still easy to recover the seed.
- tptacek 13y agoStrong agree on the distinction between IVs and nonces (I wrote about them in a blog post recently and the confusion annoys me too).