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| author | Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> | 2006-03-07 19:26:21 +0000 |
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| committer | Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> | 2006-03-07 19:26:21 +0000 |
| commit | 5f2cbce7203a29440f37cd118df085de07d5032a (patch) | |
| tree | af98a5081484e8ca9c9f64c4550758834b9a3455 /doc | |
| parent | 1c54491d985f9a4637426fe285920df7e0010ae3 (diff) | |
| download | libgcrypt-5f2cbce7203a29440f37cd118df085de07d5032a.tar.gz | |
Applied OFB mode patch by Brad Harris
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/gcrypt.texi | 12 |
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog index 797396d0..e0b54115 100644 --- a/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2006-01-18 Brad Hards <bradh@frogmouth.net> (wk 2006-03-07) + + * gcrypt.texi (Available cipher modes): Typo fix, add a little + more detail on cipher modes vs cipher algorithms. + 2006-01-08 Moritz Schulte <moritz@g10code.com> * gcrypt.texi: Added documentation for more gcry_control commands. diff --git a/doc/gcrypt.texi b/doc/gcrypt.texi index 907f7bb2..fa32a3ab 100644 --- a/doc/gcrypt.texi +++ b/doc/gcrypt.texi @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ This manual is for Libgcrypt (version @value{VERSION}, @value{UPDATED}), which is GNU's library of cryptographic building blocks. -Copyright @copyright{} 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright @copyright{} 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. @quotation Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document @@ -1318,7 +1318,7 @@ Cipher Block Chaining mode. Stream mode, only to be used with stream cipher algorithms. @item GCRY_CIPHER_MODE_OFB -Outer Feedback mode. +Output Feedback mode. @item GCRY_CIPHER_MODE_CTR Counter mode. @@ -1347,8 +1347,12 @@ an algorithm into the according numeric ID. The cipher mode to use must be specified via @var{mode}. See @xref{Available cipher modes}, for a list of supported cipher modes -and the according constants. Note, that some modes do not work -together with all algorithms. +and the according constants. Note that some modes are incompatible +with some algorithms - in particular, stream mode +(GCRY_CIPHER_MODE_STREAM) only works with stream ciphers. Any block +cipher mode (GCRY_CIPHER_MODE_ECB, GCRY_CIPHER_MODE_CBC, +GCRY_CIPHER_MODE_CFB, GCRY_CIPHER_MODE_OFB or GCRY_CIPHER_MODE_CTR) +will work with any block cipher algorithm. The third argument @var{flags} can either be passed as @code{0} or as the bit-wise OR of the following constants. |