Aaron Zauner <[email protected]> writes:

>What do you think nonce stands for?
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_nonce

Well there's your first mistake, you're using Wikipedia as a reference.
"nonce" is from medieval English, and predates modern cryptography and IVs by
about 800 years.

>In TLS nonce reuse allows us to attack the authentication key of GCM. Not the
>actual master secret. There's no direct break of the confidentiality, 

If you reuse the IV/nonce in GCM (or more specifically CTR mode), you repeat
the cipher stream.  An XOR makes it go away, so you lose any confidentiality.

Peter.


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