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AES-CTR uses a nonce - a number used once - rather than an IV for creating the initial counter value. This nonce is actually just an octet stream / byte array rather than a number; you could think of it as an encoded unsigned number.
So in principle, CTR mode doesn't require an IV. However, as there are many ways of creating the initial counter value, most ...
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