Renaming AES to AES-128

Robert J. Hansen rjh at sixdemonbag.org
Fri Dec 10 19:37:03 CET 2010


On 12/10/10 12:11 PM, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> Okay gcry_cipher_algo_name(GCRY_CIPHER_AES) would return "AES-128"
> instead of "AES", but does this really warrant a rebuild? The index number 
> just stays the same.

The problem is we don't know how many third-party apps are hardwired to
expect "AES" instead of "AES-128."  I suspect the answer is "a lot more
than we think."



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