On Wed, Jan 07, 2009, a_l t wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm using the fips approved OpenSSL to do AES encryption in ISDN, therefore,
> I need to use the fips_128_AES_OFB function.
> If I understand correctly this function works on a 128bit (16 byte) block,
> so if I want to use it on larger blocks I need to call it in a loop.
> This is different from the AES_CBC function which works on every block size
> (as long as it is aligned to 128bit).
> Is there another OFB function which knows to handle different block sizes or
> loop is the only way.
> 

For the 1.2 modules you *must* use the EVP interface and not the low level
APIs. Any looping is automatically handled by EVP.

Steve.
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