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Small block ciphers are thus generally a bad idea against active adversaries.
However, they can be very useful against passive adversaries whose capability is limited to observing identifiers, who are then unable to map them to the original value.

Really? Isn’t the Sweet32[0] attack mostly passive? “We show that a network attacker who can monitor a long-lived Triple-DES HTTPS connection between a web browser and a website can recover secure HTTP cookies by capturing around 785 GB of traffic.”

[0] https://sweet32.info/

...a long-lived HTTPS connection that manages to transfer >700 GiB of traffic, with no disconnects, and presumably has re-keying disabled? An interesting theoretical setup, I guess.

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