On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 19:58 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Tomas Mraz <tmraz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > This would not be a 'hashing' algorithm but a simple block encryption
> > algorithm in the ECB mode with the random key initialized at boot. The
> > problem here is that the standard block ciphers have at least 64 bit
> > block length as smaller block length ciphers would not be secure for
> > general purpose uses. You would have to take an existing block cipher
> > algorithm and modify it to achieve the smaller block length.
>
> If block sizes are a problem then we have stream ciphers too.
But you obviously cannot use a stream cipher as ECB cipher which is what
Dan needs here.
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Tomas Mraz
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