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2026-02-18 12:52 UTC

@varx@cybersecurity.theater Setting your own key to all zeroes sure sounds exploitable by a participant to me (and in a group chat it would seem to make a third party actor's work given access only to ciphertext much easier); and truncating a HMAC sounds like something a malicious party along the network data path could do. So I would put both of those in the category of "plausibly exploitable" at least. @soatok@furry.engineer

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  • @mkj@social.mkj.earth @varx@cybersecurity.theater @soatok@furry.engineer why would you set your own key to all zeros? wouldn't it be like setting "password" as password?

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