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Comment by mmozeiko

> Inverses exist for each operation, which makes decryption possible.

It is worth mentioning that in modern AES usage this feature does not really matter, because block cipher is used in CTR mode. In CTR block cipher is used to create long keystream bytes (pretty much one-time-pad key). This keystream gets xor'ed with plaintext to get ciphertext. Then getting from ciphertext back to plaintext is exactly the same xor operation with same keystream, no inverse AES operations needed.

parent mmozeiko 11 days ago

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