Re: "incrementing" ecb mode

From: Eris Pluvia (eris_pluviaNOSPAM_at_yahoo.es)
Date: 10/18/03


Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 00:11:39 +0200


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Peter Fairbrother:

> Are there any security problems with using a sort-of incrementing ecb
> mode, like this:
>
> 1) Every file is encrypted with a different starting key.
>
> 2) Each block in a file is encrypted with an incremented key, ie each
> block's key is 1 more than the previous block's key.

My option is rehashing the key each block. The loss of performance is less
than this caused by rescheduling.

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Eris Pluvia
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