Tomas Mraz <tm...@redhat.com> wrote: > > This would not be a 'hashing' algorithm but a simple block encryption > algorithm in the ECB mode with the random key initialized at boot. The > problem here is that the standard block ciphers have at least 64 bit > block length as smaller block length ciphers would not be secure for > general purpose uses. You would have to take an existing block cipher > algorithm and modify it to achieve the smaller block length.
If block sizes are a problem then we have stream ciphers too. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
