> The AD ensures that the decryption will explode if you try to cut and paste chunks of the file into different positions.
Ah, that's the key bit of perspective. Just talking about "context" is so abstract. That's a case where you don't even need to transmit the AD, right? Do you ever have cases where the AD is a mix of transmitted and locally/"contextually" derived data?
Ah, that's the key bit of perspective. Just talking about "context" is so abstract. That's a case where you don't even need to transmit the AD, right? Do you ever have cases where the AD is a mix of transmitted and locally/"contextually" derived data?