Re: [RFC] DRBG: which shall be default?

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On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 11:31:22AM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote:
>
> The skcipher API, however, wants to encrypt an entire input data stream. That 
> means the skcipher API requires the length of the input data stream to 
> generate an equally sized output data stream. But that is not what we have 
> here -- there is no input data. I.e. the skcipher API invokes the CTR mode for 
> the stream cipher and performs the final XOR of the CTR stream with the input 
> data.

Just use an input stream of zeros.

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