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X has launched Chat, an end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) replacement for its existing direct messaging service. Chat is rolling out on iOS now via the X app, and it includes support for video and voice ...

It would be very helpful if the FAPI could internally split the plain text into the required chunks and perform the block chaning on each chunk with a mode, deemed fit, like CTR. Then each such ...