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authorAlex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>2013-08-08 11:27:47 -0700
committerAlex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>2013-08-08 11:27:47 -0700
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Document that IVs should not be reused.
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@@ -55,3 +55,5 @@ Modes
in a transmitted message). Should be
the same number of bytes as the ``key``
for the cipher.
+ ``initialization_vectors`` should never
+ be reused across different messages.