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Suppose you use the sector number times the number of AES blocks per sector as the initial value for CTR. If you successively store the content $M$ then $M'$ in the same sector $n$ then $E^{CTR}_n(M) \oplus E^{CTR}_n(M') = M \oplus M'$ (where $E^{CTR}_{n}$ is the encryption function with CTR mode and IV started for sector number $n$). CTR mode fails ...

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There are some serious problems with this design that would preclude it from being standardized, so it probably does not have a name. The 2 visibly main flaws are as follows: If the plaintext follows a pattern similar to the block counter, the block cipher inputs may repeat, exposing information about the plaintext (exact same issue as reuse of nonce, but ...

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It probably doesn't. Yes. For strings $x,m0,m1$ such that $\text {length}(x) = \text{length}(nonce)$ and $\text{length}(m0) = \text{length}(i) = \text{length}(m1)$ $( nonce || i ) \oplus ( x || m0 ) = ( nonce || j ) \oplus ( x || m1 ) \iff m0 \oplus m1 = i \oplus j$ . I'm not aware of any.

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