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. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
