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		adgjlsfhk1 on April 21, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Psychic Signatures in Java note that symmetric encryption is also really hard. it wasn't until 2010 or so that GCM mode came around and provided a system that is somewhat easy to implement without accidentally breaking everything.

0xdeadb00f on April 21, 2022 [–]

GCM is not without it's own pitfalls though, however.

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