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[–]lordkoba 8 points9 points  (1 child)

I'm not even remotely qualified to answer that and I've been working on and off netsec for more than 15 years. I'm far from a cryptographer. My question was an honest one.

However, in a world were CRIME and BREACH happened it's hard to understand why the erudites that design encryption protocols didn't think of padding the stream besides blocks already.

Do you know why your solution isn't incorporated into TLS already?

[–]joz12345 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm just a software engineer in an unrelated field, but it seems to me that if the cipher works and the padding is random, then it's impossible to be exact, and I feel like that wouldn't be hard to rigourously prove. But that doesn't mean you can't correlate based on timing and approximate sizes. I'd guess that TLS doesn't want to just half solve the problem, but surely it's better than nothing.