Symmetric cipher padding?

[Moritz Schulte]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 08:27:38PM +1100, Brad Hards wrote:

> 1. I've been working on the assumption that if I pass more than
> block size bytes to gcry_cipher_encrypt(), then libgcrypt will
> buffer the residual bytes.

Where did you base this assumption on?  Libgcrypt does not buffer such
data for you - the library is a low-level library - keep this in mind.

> 2. Is there  anything that I can use to help with the padding? For example, 
> does libgcrypt keep track of how many bytes have been encrypted already?

There is no such counter.

> 3. Is there any special support for CTS? (or, can I have a hint please :)

CTS is supported.  If you enable it, you can transform chunks of data,
whose size does not have to be a multiple of the block size (it only
needs to be larger than a single block).

Moritz

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Moritz Schulte
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