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Re: Sample Twofish message

1999-04-05 13:09:27
hal(_at_)rain(_dot_)org writes:

Note also that the special CFB "sync" operation (after processing these 10
bytes) is not to be done with block ciphers whose block size is greater
than 8 bytes, hence is not done for Twofish.

Hmmm, section 5.7 states that encryption is done in PGP's special CFB
mode and there is no exception mentioned.  

If I remember correct, we discussed this 128 bit block cipher issue
last year and changed the draft accordingly. 

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