On 30 Oct 2000, "Mark W. Eichin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Instead of making up some hashing key-generation method, please look
> at RFC2104 "HMAC" (and the six or seven followup rfc's on specific
> instantiations.)
>
> Also, for rsync, I don't see why you'd particularly want a stream
> cipher (it isn't interactive, you have "large" packets to work with)
> and I might suggest you look at Rijndael, the newly-standardized US
> AES...
Both good questions. I'll look into HMAC.
Block cyphers might work, but remember that the three tasks in rsync
converse among themselves. If data is buffered up into blocks they
might deadlock unless we have a way to send half-filled blocks.
Packetization makes things rapidly more complex.
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