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		madaxe_again on March 21, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Johns Hopkins researchers poke a hole in Apple’s e... From the article it sounds like bull - unless something is seriously awry you should be getting no indication that individual bits of your key are right or wrong, as they describe. I'll await the paper.

IceyEC on March 21, 2016 [–]

I think it's generally called an oracle and are usually very useful when it comes to breaking crypto

doomrobo on March 21, 2016 | [–]

Oracles normally operate on plaintext or ciphertext, not key material directly.

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