John > On 17 Jan 2016, at 19:30, John Dixon <dixo...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: > > When asking for the cipher names that are available to liveCode... a long > list is produced.. In the case of aes 256 there are many variants as depicted > by three letters after 'aes'... What do they mean ?... Is it important to use > the correct one ? > > example of different cipher names in the list.... > > aes-128-cbc,128 > …. > > aes256,256
They are different mechanisms for handling multiple blocks of data. (A block length being determined by the key length.). This may help https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_cipher_mode_of_operation Regards Peter _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
