Re: Question about ctr mode 3des-ede IV len

From	"Longpeng (Mike)" <longpeng2@huawei.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: Question about ctr mode 3des-ede IV len
Date	2016-12-08 12:40 +0100
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Hi Jussi,

On 2016/12/7 21:15, Jussi Kivilinna wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> 07.12.2016, 14:43, Longpeng (Mike) kirjoitti:
>> Hi Jussi and Herbert,
>>
>> I saw serveral des3-ede testcases(in crypto/testmgr.h) has 16-bytes IV, and the
>> libgcrypt/nettle/RFC1851 said the IV-len is 8-bytes.
>>
>> Would you please tell me why these testcases has 16-bytes IV ?
> 
> Because I used same tool to create test-vectors which I had previously used to create AES/Camellia/Serpent/Twofish test-vectors. So, I must have forgotten to change 16-byte IV generation to 8 bytes and thus those testcases in crypto/testmgr.h have wrong length. The extra trailing 8 bytes are not used and can be removed.
> 


Thank you very much. :)

> -Jussi
> 
>>
>> Thank you. :)
>>
> 
> .
> 


-- 
Regards,
Longpeng(Mike)

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Question about ctr mode 3des-ede IV len "Longpeng (Mike)" <longpeng2@huawei.com> - 2016-12-07 13:50 +0100
  Re: Question about ctr mode 3des-ede IV len Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2016-12-08 10:10 +0100
    Re: Question about ctr mode 3des-ede IV len "Longpeng (Mike)" <longpeng2@huawei.com> - 2016-12-08 10:20 +0100
  Re: Question about ctr mode 3des-ede IV len Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@iki.fi> - 2016-12-08 12:20 +0100
    Re: Question about ctr mode 3des-ede IV len "Longpeng (Mike)" <longpeng2@huawei.com> - 2016-12-08 12:40 +0100

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