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authorPaul Kehrer <paul.l.kehrer@gmail.com>2013-12-03 17:37:42 -0600
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byte has been decrypted. GCM provides NO guarantees of ciphertext
integrity until decryption is complete.
- GCM (Galois Counter Mode) is a mode of operation for block ciphers. It
- is an AEAD (authenticated encryption with additional data) mode. AEAD
- is a type of block cipher mode that encrypts the message as well as
- authenticating it (and optionally additional data that is not encrypted)
- simultaneously. Additional means of verifying integrity (like
+ GCM (Galois Counter Mode) is a mode of operation for block ciphers. An
+ AEAD (authenticated encryption with additional data) mode is a type of
+ block cipher mode that encrypts the message as well as authenticating it
+ (and optionally additional data that is not encrypted) simultaneously.
+ Additional means of verifying integrity (like
:doc:`HMAC </hazmat/primitives/hmac>`) are not necessary.
:param bytes initialization_vector: Must be random bytes. They do not need