Does the IV for CBC really have to be zeros?

2000-03-22 Thread Noel Burton-Krahn
Is this an error in documentation? According to Applied Crypto, Schneier, p 194, the IV in CBC mode ciphers should be different for each message. Looking at the source for BF_cbc_encrypt(), it looks like iv can be initialized with any 64 bytes. from the blowfish(3) man page

Re: Does the IV for CBC really have to be zeros?

2000-03-22 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
noel Is this an error in documentation? According to Applied Crypto, noel Schneier, p 194, the IV in CBC mode ciphers should be different for noel each message. Looking at the source for BF_cbc_encrypt(), it looks noel like iv can be initialized with any 64 bytes. You're right, that is a