Chiasmus (cipher)
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Chiasmus (cipher)
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Chiasmus is a secret German government block cipher that was leaked by reverse engineering. It became notorious for its dilettant use in the BSI's software GSTOOL, which used it in insecure Electronic Codebook (ECB) mode and generated the key with a pseudo random number generator initialized to the current system time, which means an effective key length that can easily be broken by brute force. The BSI tried to prevent the publication of these findings with legal threats. Chiasmus seems to be r
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Block cipher
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiasmus_(cipher)
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2023-07-23T21:28:20Z
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