January 22, 2002
Practical Aspects of Modern Cryptography
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Zero Padding
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What’s wrong with padding with zeros?
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If my plaintext can end in a zero, I cannot tell
the plaintext data apart from the added pad
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Not always fatal, but in general zero is a legal
plaintext value
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We need something else...
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D9
7B
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