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You must not reuse IV between different blocks, but that does not stop you from using the same IV for the same block. Yes, you leak information about matching blocks - it's up to your use case whether you care about it.



Yes, sorry I was imprecise. I meant reusing IVs for equal blocks only, to be able to see duplicate data.




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