"Kevin W. Wall" <kevin.w.w...@gmail.com> writes: >(Obviously some of these padding schemes such as OAEP are not suitable with >symmetric ciphers. Or at least I don't think they are.)
You'd be surprised at what JCE developers will implement just because they can, and what therefore gets used by application developers. I've seen RSA-CBC used on more than one occasion. (No, that's not a typo, RSA in CBC mode. The app developers wondered why it was so slow). Peter. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majord...@metzdowd.com