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## Block encryption
+The block encryption utilities can produce verbose human-readable output,
+including round keys, intermediate initialization vector values, etc.
+This is primarily intended for debugging purposes.
+Enable verbose output by passing the `--verbose` flag to the utilities.
+Please note that verbose output can only be produced when *not* using "boxes"
+(the `--boxes` flag).
+
### aes_encrypt_block.exe
Encrypts 16-byte blocks using AES-128/192/256 in the specified mode of