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Re: IV sizes for AES candidates
Steve
16 bytes for 128bit ciphertext blocksize, right? It should be 24 and
32 for 192bit and 256bit, correct? Or is it always 16 (which I don't
believe is correct)?
At 03:06 PM 8/7/2000 -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>In message
<20000807185658.4465.qmail@pb151.postoffice.net>,
jeff@allegrosys.co
>m writes:
>>Is anyone working on drafts for ESP using the AES
candidates?
>>
>>Is there a consensus that the IV part of the payload
should
>>be a number of 32bit words?
>
>The IV should be the same size as the ciphertext blocksize,
which for
>AES is 16 bytes. (One could make some argument that one
could stick
>with 8 bytes, and somehow expand it. That would make me
nervous
>without some good analysis.)
>
>
> --Steve
Bellovin
>
>
>
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