Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 07:59:39 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> Cc: "Andrew J. Korty" <ajk@iu.edu>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cryptographic dump(8) Message-ID: <200005050559.HAA09922@grimreaper.grondar.za> In-Reply-To: <00May5.112203est.116381@border.alcanet.com.au> ; from Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> "Fri, 05 May 2000 11:21:12 %2B1000." References: <00May5.112203est.116381@border.alcanet.com.au>
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> > I have no hard references in front of me, but I'll put ${bodypart}
> >on a block that CBC is 8-bytes-at-a-time-with-same-key-each-time.
>
> Bzzzt. You lose (I hope you didn't set ${bodypart} to anything important).
> You are thinking of ECB (Electronic Code Book): This mode takes each
> block and individually encrypts it.
:-) You are correct. ECB is what I was thinking about, and CBC and CFB
are what I was reccommending for use.
M
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