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It's not a certainty of abuse, only uneasiness about technical feasibility. Historically abuse of forgery was clever and unpredictable, as a result design of cryptographic systems tries to prevent forgery when possible. A hypothesis: pass prints text from decrypted file to terminal, terminals have rich functionality, legacy features and wide attack surface, so text printed to terminal is an attack vector.


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