[PATCH 1/3] whirlpool: do bitcount calculation in finalization part

[Jussi Kivilinna]

On 20.09.2013 16:21, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 20:16, jussi.kivilinna at iki.fi said:
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>> With 256-bit counter, overflow happens after ~1.3e67 gigabytes. With 64-bit
>> block counter, overflow happens just after ~1.1e12 gigabytes.
> 
> You better check with the NSA that this is okay for their data centers
> ;-)

Oh, someone might actually want hash for over 1 zettabyte of data (in distant future).

If this is really needed, the nblocks overflow assert in whirlpool_white can be turned in to carry handling.

- Jussi

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> 
> Shalom-Salam,
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>    Werner
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