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30 lines
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Encryption algorithms are essential for protecting sensitive information and
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ensuring secure communications in a variety of domains. They are used for
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several important reasons:
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* Confidentiality, privacy, and intellectual property protection
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* Security during transmission or on storage devices
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* Data integrity, general trust, and authentication
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When selecting encryption algorithms, tools, or combinations, you should also
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consider two things:
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1. No encryption is unbreakable.
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2. The strength of an encryption algorithm is usually measured by the effort
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required to crack it within a reasonable time frame.
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For these reasons, as soon as cryptography is included in a project, it is
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important to choose encryption algorithms that are considered strong and secure
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by the cryptography community.
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For AES, the weakest mode is ECB (Electronic Codebook). Repeated blocks of data
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are encrypted to the same value, making them easy to identify and reducing the
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difficulty of recovering the original cleartext.
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Unauthenticated modes such as CBC (Cipher Block Chaining) may be used but are
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prone to attacks that manipulate the ciphertext. They must be used with caution.
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For RSA, the weakest algorithms are either using it without padding or
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using the PKCS1v1.5 padding scheme.
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