8 bytes issue . . .

Werner Koch wk@gnupg.org
Mon Apr 2 09:15:14 2001


On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Kahil D. Jallad wrote:


> assumes that all ciphers have a blocksize of 8 for encrypted packets (both
> with and without MDC), so it says the Symmetric Key Encrypted Packet is
> (data_size + 10) bytes long regardless of the blocksize of the alorithm.
You are right. I think that this problem has not yet shown up becuase we usually use partial length encoded packets (where ed->len is zero). I have fixed that and hopefully it does not break too much - if it does we have to add another bug emulation options :-) Many thanks, Werner -- Werner Koch Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur g10 Code et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Privacy Solutions -- Augustinus