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AES-GCM-SIV takes a nonce; if you reuse a nonce with two identical plaintexts, you reveal that the plaintexts were identical, but not much more.

With AES-GCM, if you reuse a nonce with two different plaintexts, you reveal the XOR of the two plaintexts!

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