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Re: risks of MACs associated with packets



>authenticators -- but we are using no initialization vectors on these
>things. That means that the odds of two identical payload messages
>having identical authenticators is very high (especially since the

If authentication is done outside encryption, and if the encryption uses
an IV, then the data being authenticated will always be different from
packet to packet.

Phil


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