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andrewcooke on Dec 25, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: So, you want to crypto

eh, no need to apologise. i think we're used to you here and there's a level of tolerance given the contributions you make.

also, did you see http://www.jakoblell.com/blog/2013/12/22/practical-malleabil... which i think could be added to an early crypto challenge? (but maybe you already cover the idea).

tptacek on Dec 27, 2013 [–]

CBC bitflipping is in set #2. Incidentally, somewhere in the mists of time is a very weird blog post ("If You're Typing The Letters A-E-S Into Your Code, You're Doing It Wrong") I wrote describing how to implement this attack --- though not against LUKS.

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