Subject: cgd: CBC or no CBC
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Florian Stoehr <netbsd@wolfnode.de>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/21/2005 20:19:40
Hi,

in NetBSD guide: "All three ciphers are used in CBC mode. This means each 
block is XORed with the previous encrypted block before encryption.".

Is this correct?

I'm not native English, so the original author's text is not easy to 
unserstand for me. As far as I understand, the text says that each block 
is encrypted SEPARATELY from any other block - with a different IV each, 
IV is the encrypted block number encrypted with the same key used for the 
data.

???

Can someone explain that, please?
Is the guide wrong here?

Thanks
Florian