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PR-URL: #53784 Reviewed-By: Filip Skokan <panva.ip@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Marco Ippolito <marcoippolito54@gmail.com>
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Even if the underlying cipher implements authentication, the authenticity and
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integrity of the plaintext returned from this function may be uncertain at this
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time. For authenticated encryption algorithms, authenticity is generally only
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established when the application calls [`decipher.final()`][].
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## Class: `DiffieHellman`
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