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Why would I ever use AES-256-CBC if AES-256-GCM is more secure?
I guess the gist of my question is: Are there cases in which CBC is better than GCM? The reason I'm asking is that from reading this post by Matthew Green, and this question on cryptography stack ...
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What is the purpose of encrypting a symetric key with a public key in XML EncryptedKey?
I was reading the XML Encryption standard and I have some trouble understanding the purpose of encrypting some plain text with a symmetric generated AES or 3DES key that in turn gets encrypted with ...
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AES256 key exchange
I'm trying to get a secure way of exchanging keys between my client application and the server. The goal is to encrypt all XML messages with AES256. These XML's will be transferred to the server ...
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