On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 02:23:04PM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote: > > Isn't it a basic assumption to ablkcipher is that the ciphertext is equal in > size as the plaintext?
Not necessarily since a blkcipher also outputs IV which is exactly what's happening in KW. For the fixed IV value you could use givencrypt so you don't even an rfc wrapper. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html