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Block ciphers and their modes
ECB's Achilles heel
MCQ
Why is ECB mode considered insecure for encrypting real data?
Possible answers
Because it uses a key that is too short to resist attacks
Because two identical plaintext blocks produce two identical ciphertext blocks, which leaks the structure of the message
Because it is too slow to be used in practice
Because it can only encrypt messages shorter than 16 bytes
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