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| [ Decrypt] ( https://github.com/awslabs/aws-encryption-sdk-specification/blob/623992d999db0b309d8a8adbd664f0d72feee813/client-apis/decrypt.md ) |
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## Affected Specifications
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## Drawbacks
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- This feature technically means the version value is capped to 40 or less,
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- to ensure that the Base64-encoded values are not ambiguous.
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+ This feature technically means the version value
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+ cannot be incremented beyond the hex value ` 40 ` ,
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+ since ` 41 ` would then conflict with the Base64-encoded value for ` 1 ` .
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This does not seem worth worrying about
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- given how rarely we intended to change the version.
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+ given how rarely we intended to change the version, however .
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## Security Implications
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- 0.2.0
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- - [ Detect Base64-encoded Messages] ( ../changes/2020-05-13_remove-keyring-trace /change.md )
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+ - [ Detect Base64-encoded Messages] ( ../changes/2020-07-13_detect-base64-encoded-messages /change.md )
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- 0.1.0-preview
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