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Encrypting AES-GCM Key with AES or RSA?

Is there a security flaw (or draw back) if I encrypt the store symmetric key (AES-GCM-256) with the parent symmetric key (AES-GCM-256)? First of all, there is no such thing as an AES-GCM-256 key. ...
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why there is a need to send iv with cipher text?

TL;DR: Since TLS 1.1, CBC encryption is with random IV explicitly transmitted for each packet, because that's safe. It's made no use of the derived IVs pointed by the question. I first consider ...
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