On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 11:50:28AM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
>
> Wouldn't it make a lot more sense to make skcipher algorithms non-chainable by
> default, and only opt-in the ones where chaining is actually working?  At the
> moment we only test iv_out for CBC and CTR, so we can expect that all the 
> others
> are broken.

Yes, I'm working through all the algorithms marking them.  If it
turns out that defaulting to off would result in a smaller patch
then I'm certainly going to do that.

> Note that wide-block modes such as Adiantum don't support chaining either.
> 
> Also, please use a better name than "fcsize".

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
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