Re: GCM & CTR (fwd)

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On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 10:29:32PM +0000, Joy Latten wrote:
>
> I think the change to CTR would be simple.  
> If noncesize + ivsize == blocksize, then use 
> entire counterblock as counter and pass to  
> ctr_inc_quad(). Currently, we just fail 
> if noncesize + ivsize == blocksize.  

How about adding an explicit counter size parameter?

So intead of ctr(aes,4,8) for the standard IPsec CTR we'd have
ctr(aes,4,8,4).  Then GCM can just use ctr(aes,4,12,4).

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