Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 May 2003 16:04:54 +1000 (EST) | From | James Morris <> | Subject | Re: CryptoAPI and WEP/stream ciphers (was: airo and firmware upload) |
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On Wed, 14 May 2003, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> I tried to change my WEP implementation to use CryptoAPI, but that ended > up in problems.. If I understood correctly, current CryptoAPI supports > only block ciphers(?).
Block ciphers and digests.
> certainly does not sound very reasonable.. Another alternative would be > to add support for stream ciphers into CryptoAPI.
Yes, it would be good to have API support for stream encryption in general, e.g. also for OFB and Counter Mode.
> Do you think that it would still be required to get rid of the own WEP > implementation in the Host AP driver before including it into the kernel > tree? Would this mean that someone would first need to add support for > stream ciphers into CryptoAPI? Any change of that happening for Linux > 2.6.x?
I'd like to see it go in if the code is available.
> And one more question before using more time with WEP implementation.. > Is someone already working with stream cipher support for CryptoAPI?
Not that I know of.
- James -- James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>
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