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Re: Calling the question: implicit vs. explicit IV



I believe there is a (cryptographic requirement) that the IV be somewhat
random.  I asked this on the list a while back, check the archive from
about three weeks ago.

At 12:26 PM 8/1/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Derrell Piper writes:
>> I would like to see only an explicit IV used for ESP.
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>Is there a consensus on whether we will mandate the contents of an
>explicit IV?  If the contents are implementation dependent, then this
>doesn't seem to cause problems, but requiring them to be pseudo-random
>seems to needlessly add overhead for compliant implementations.
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>ben
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