diff --git a/book/source/decryption.md b/book/source/decryption.md index f0991ef..5e9ef76 100644 --- a/book/source/decryption.md +++ b/book/source/decryption.md @@ -181,4 +181,6 @@ Each chunk is decrypted using AEAD using the message key and an IV with appended ## SED -Legacy mode: may be decrypted, but not produced. +The Symmetrically Encrypted Data packet predates the SEIPD packet and is nowadays deprecated. +Due to the lack of integrity protection, this packet is susceptible to a whole class of attacks where the attacker modifies the ciphertext. +Therefore, implementations MUST NOT produce this packet and are encouraged not to accept incoming SED packages from untrusted sources. \ No newline at end of file