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

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On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 02:06:55PM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote:
>
> I am working on it. During the analysis, I saw, however, that the DRBG 
> increments the counter before the encryption whereas the the CTR mode 
> increments it after the encryption.
> 
> I could of course adjust the handling in the code, but this would be a real 
> hack IMHO.

Changing the order of increment is equivalent to changing the IV, no?

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