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Re: opencrypto and rijndael/AES




On Tuesday, August 26, 2003, at 07:55 PM, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:

        this basically is for CFB1 mode, which uses rijndael encryption for
        decryption.  that's why esp_rijndael.c did not use rijndael_ctx
        (but from API pov it was a bad practice).  we of course could ditch
        modes we don't need and shrink the size of rijndael_ctx.

It's for CFB1 mode if you use the keyInstance (rk for encrypt-or-decrypt and ek for CFB1), but if use the rijndael_ctx, there's an ek (encrypt key) and dk (decrypt key).

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej%wasabisystems.com@localhost>




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