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Similar to composability problems in cryptography. Naively combining primitives that individually hold certain security guarantees will most certainly undo all of the security, instead of "stacking" these individual guarantees.

Usually you can trace the insecurity to mismatched assumptions, unhandled edge cases or a failure to consider global contexts (like where you accidentally turn one function into a decryption oracle for another).



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