Figuring out if a cipher mode is available.

Brad Hards bradh at frogmouth.net
Mon Mar 28 11:43:49 CEST 2005


On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 19:22 pm, Moritz Schulte wrote:
> > I see in the code that not all modes are supported for all Ciphers,
> > which is fair enough.
>
> Well, yes.  There are the modes ECB, CBC, CFB and CTR for block
> ciphers and there is STREAM for stream ciphers; OFB is not supported
> for any algorithm currently.
Are those modes good for all ciphers?

Brad
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