From: Dr S N Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

stephen.henson> While this is what is done with other ciphers I'd
stephen.henson> argue that it isn't strictly speaking correct. The NID
stephen.henson> is tied to an ASN1 OBJECT IDENTIFIER (OID). The OID
stephen.henson> (at least for CFB mode) doesn't represent the number
stephen.henson> of feedback bits just the cipher+mode combination.

I agree.  What I did was just the quick thing to bring uniformity to
what has been done so far.  I suggest that deeper changes be done in
the main trunk only.

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