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		IceyEC on March 21, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Johns Hopkins researchers poke a hole in Apple’s e... 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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