Re: kerneli blowfish/twofish compromised?

Olaf Titz (olaf@bigred.inka.de)
Mon, 23 Nov 1998 13:16:33 +0100


> Doing this without explicit storage space for an IV is tricky, since the
> IV has to change whenver the block is changed, so something implicit
> from the block number won't do. It turns out, however, to be possible to
> checksum the plaintext and use that as an IV.

How would this work without extra storage for the IV?

olaf

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