Libgcrypt CFB-mode as CFB-8bit

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Thu Apr 14 14:45:10 CEST 2016


On Thu, 14 Apr 2016 13:03, liza.churkyn at sociomantic.com said:

> systems already use 8 bit CFB mode to encrypt some data they send and
> they are not likely to change anytime soon. I had hoped to use gcrypt
> to do the decryption and while it works for all the other algorithms

It is too late for 1.7.0 to add this mode.  Anyway, I just pushed a
change which adds GCRY_CIPHER_MODE_CFB8 to prepare for an addition in
1.7.1


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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