On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 08:56:32AM +1200, Sidney Markowitz wrote: > Aram Perez wrote, On 19/4/07 6:29 PM: > > Is there any danger in using AES128-CBC with a fixed IV of all zeros? > > Here is some discussion about doing this, in the context of PGP doing > just that and why PGP inserts random characters at the begining of the > plaintext.
Kerberos V calls this a "confounder" (a block of randomly selected bits that is prepended to plaintext prior to encryption). Nico -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
