aws / aws/aws-encryption-sdk-python

potential issue with large reads on nonframed messages

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Description

In tracking down an issue in an unrelated codebase, I discovered that at least in some cases, passing more than 2GiB to the pyca/cryptography `Cipher.update()` methods can cause issues with the underlying OpenSSL implementation.

This is not an issue with framed messages because our max frame size is 2GiB, but could be an issue for nonframed messages larger than 2GiB.

We should add tests that check for this edge case, and if it is an issue we can add chunking logic.

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