Re: Q about padding

2001-12-03 Thread Dr S N Henson
Keresztfalvi Laszlo wrote: > > > > When decrypting the final block is checked to see if it has the correct > form. > > Although the decryption operation can produce an error if padding is > enabled, it is not a strong test that the input data or key is correct. A > random block has better than

Q about padding

2001-12-03 Thread Keresztfalvi Laszlo
Gens, I'm new to encryption and just thinking about an application using SSL to communicate and also for data (file) encryption both by OpenSSL (of course :-) I found the next paragraphs in the EVP doc (http://www.openssl.org/docs/crypto/EVP_EncryptInit.html#) When decrypting the final block