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Glossary: Cryptography and PKI

ECB (Electronic Codebook)

Also written: Electronic Codebook, AES-ECB

An unsafe block cipher mode that encrypts each block on its own, so identical plaintext blocks give identical ciphertext and patterns show through. Never use it.

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Related terms

Mode of operationCBC (Cipher Block Chaining)GCM (Galois/Counter Mode)