Good encryption is not vulnerable to a known-plaintext attack, but that's no reason for #NATO to yolo here. They used a plaintext that's fully knowable by an adversary with a good antenna, a clock and some knowledge of the pilot schedule. If said adversary kept these recordings for a decade, now it's party time. Let's just hope nobody used this particular cipher mode.

#38c3

https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-breaking-nato-radio-encryption

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Uhg

Yeah, this one is nice. 😋

The Noise framework fixes this by generating ephemeral keys during the handshake.

http://www.noiseprotocol.org

If AES becomes vulnerable to known-plaintext attacks everything is fucked.