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      "P2 because it provides a 2x-3x speedup to the core cipher used in BIP324 transport",
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    "Lack of unit test and differential fuzzing coverage across all target-specific multi-block dispatch sizes",
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    "Initial implementation failed on big-endian architectures due to post-XOR byte swapping (fixed)",
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