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Re: V3 secret keys

Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk> Fri, 03 February 2006 15:50 UTC

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To: "Daniel A. Nagy" <nagydani@epointsystem.org>
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Subject: Re: V3 secret keys
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Daniel A. Nagy wrote:
> Right, your description is equivalent, but different from the traditional
> view of CFB. I implemented CFB resynchronization based on the description in
> Bruce Schneier's "Applied Cryptography", without looking into any
> implementations. The result was interoperable at first attempt.

I (reluctantly) dug out my copy of "Applied Cryptography" and I see no
mention of "resynchronisation".

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