Re: General Questions

2006-08-17 Thread David Irvine
Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > --- David Irvine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - > Many thanks for a fantastic explanation and for > taking the time tohelp me. I was just reading some > docs there pointing me to this but youhave saved me a > good few hours. > > I w

Re: General Questions

2006-08-17 Thread David Irvine
ohhps :-[    thanks again - I am more educated than I was 10 mins ago. I hope other folk read this and don't repeat my stupid question. CFB mode for me then (we may stream the data back a bit at a time). Again brilliant David Marek Marcola wrote: Hello, Just quickly though in

Re: General Questions

2006-08-17 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
--- David Irvine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - Many thanks for a fantastic explanation and for taking the time tohelp me. I was just reading some docs there pointing me to this but youhave saved me a good few hours. I will search out info for python info on PBK

Re: General Questions

2006-08-17 Thread Marek Marcola
Hello, > Just quickly though in point 3 does that mean I should use ECB mode > or not if I am going to split the file and send two parts to different > locations? Of course not, look at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_cipher_modes_of_operation (link posted to that list before). Best r

Re: General Questions

2006-08-17 Thread David Irvine
Many thanks for a fantastic explanation and for taking the time to help me. I was just reading some docs there pointing me to this but you have saved me a good few hours. I will search out info for python info on PBKDF2 many thanks for that. Just quickly though in point 3 does that mean I sho

RE: General Questions

2006-08-17 Thread Ambarish Mitra
1. How is the IV handled in (AES) encryption? --Actually, in AES in CBC mode, the ciphertext is dependent on the already computed ciphertext block. That is, CT for block k is dependent on CT of block k-1 and plain text for block k. (How it is dependent is a complex maths). But how do you know the

Re: General Questions

2006-08-17 Thread Marek Marcola
Hello, > 1: How is the IV handled in (AES) encryption - I can see supplying an initial > vector is good but it also appears this should change with every > encryption (if you like). So does a user have to know this + key ? IV is used by encryption mode (like CBC) not by encryption algorithm like AE

Re: General questions about Diffie-Hellman

1999-08-12 Thread Dr Stephen Henson
Vincent Levesque wrote: > > Hello, > > I've looked around and I'm still a little bit confused about a few > details of Diffie-Hellman. (This is not specific to openssl so feel free > to ignore me :-). First of all, my "experimentations" seem to show that > only the server side needs Diffie-Hellm