Re: On living with the 56-bit key length restriction

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Jim Gillogly (jim@acm.org)
Wed, 23 Dec 1998 17:43:53 -0800

On cascaded short-key ciphers, Antonomasia writes:
> Does this mean that padding the final block is out and ciphertext
> stealing is in ?

Yes, if you mean PKCS-style or IPSec-style padding. Random padding
or ciphertext stealing are both fine.

Or use a respectable-length key and use any padding you want. Stronger
and faster all at once. Who could object to that?? 

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	Jim Gillogly
	2 Afteryule S.R. 1999, 01:38
	12.19.5.14.6, 12 Cimi 19 Mac, Seventh Lord of Night

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