Re: [TLS] About the key block generation for different ciphers.

Marsh Ray <marsh@extendedsubset.com> Wed, 05 October 2011 14:00 UTC

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On 10/05/2011 01:15 AM, nilesh wrote:
>
> Thanks. I had gone through that, but couldn't really get reference to
> the cipher suites with the key length.
> Attached is the file what I was exactly looking for.
>
> Thanks to Joshua Davies for the compilation.

> [Cipher suit, digest size, key length, IV size]
> TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA, 16, 32, 5 * sizeof(int)

No way that could be right.

But you have a software problem at this point, which is not so relevant 
for the TLS WG. (Ping me off-list if you need a hint :-)

- Marsh