Re: DES and IDEA in the kernel _very_ broken! (was: DES code in the kernel)

Theodore Y. Ts'o (tytso@mit.edu)
Thu, 18 Jul 1996 18:20:46 -0400

From: iang@cs.berkeley.edu (Ian Goldberg)
Date: 17 Jul 1996 12:37:42 -0700

I've made fixes to DES and IDEA so that they use CBC mode, with IV based on
the block number.

Could you make text descritpions of the encryption modes and IV
generation algorithms available, so that people outside the U.S. can
make these changes to the official kernel sources?

- Ted