[plug] CryptoAPI

[Andrew Pamment]

On Sat, 2003-05-03 at 19:10, Jason H. Smith wrote:
> On Saturday 03 May 2003 11:23 am, Andrew Pamment wrote:
> > blowfish-cbc
> > blowfish-cfb
> > blowfish-ecb
> 
> Those are the different encryption modes for the algorithm.  IIRC, ECB is 
> good if you want to parallize your encryption or you want random access 
> to the plaintext from the ciphertext.  CBC is useful if you don't want 
> redundant parts of your plaintext to show up as redundant parts of your 
> ciphertext.  And CFB is useful to use the algorithm as a stream cipher, 
> i.e. you want to decrypt one byte right now, before the rest of the block 
> is read in.

Thanks.. is there a way to choose these different modes? or does it
choose for you? My interest in the CryptoAPI is mainly for storing my
secret files that I don't want /them/ reading. My thoughts are the
kernel decides the mode to use for the particular use.. like CFB for
secure transmission and ECB or CBC for file storage.. is that right? If
so, i would only need to know if one of those files which was used for
data storage was there. Is there a place I can read about this.. So far
I've only found sites about how to mount loop back devices and such..

Thanks
Andrew
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