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Comment by Thorrez

>But not authenticating your encryption can lead to worse issues. A type of attack called padding oracle attacks can let an attacker obtain the encryption key by sending a large number of specially crafted packets.

I believe that's wrong. I don't think a padding oracle attack will leak the key. It will leak the plaintext only.

parent Thorrez 6 years ago

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