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  • $\begingroup$ I agree with Shearer's analysis, except for one point that his crack is based, "Upon further analysis, you can exploit the information leaked to reconstruct an entire key from just a few dozen encoded characters!" My issue is that you're not supposed to leak your the ciphertext (i.e. your password). $\endgroup$ Commented Apr 21, 2024 at 4:13
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    $\begingroup$ @its.just.me Of course you're not supposed to ... but much of the point of cryptography is to be robustly resistant to attack if it happens anyway. There's not much use for cryptography that expects the ciphertext (the result of encryption) to remain secret. $\endgroup$ Commented Apr 22, 2024 at 5:40