I was reading a book called Serious Cryptography. There is a page saying that block size must be large enough to prevent codebook attacks:
When 16-bit blocks are used, the lookup table needs only 2^16 × 16 = 2^20 bits of memory, or 128 kilobytes. With 32-bit blocks, memory needs grow to 16 gigabytes, which is still manageable. But with 64-bit blocks, you’d have to store 2 70 bits (a zetabit, or 128 exabytes), so forget about it. Codebook attacks won’t be an issue for larger blocks.
Where is the 2^16 * 16
coming from? I think it's supposed to be 2^16 + 2^16
the sum of ciphertext possibilities and the sum of plaintext possibilities that match this specific ciphertext, right?