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[openpgp] Is 64-bit blocks really insecure?

2015-04-03 02:35:55
Given that the PKZIP cipher is a CRC stream cipher that requires 13 known
bytes... but factoring in the deflate algorithm, this increases to
gigabytes of data.

This security of PKZIP was the reason why compression was included in PGP.
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