Re: counter mode and data integrity

From: Joerg Platte (Joerg.Platte_at_uni-dortmund.de)
Date: 10/31/03 

Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 16:51:08 +0100

Michael Amling wrote:

> If you're storing a hash-derived counter value, you may as well store
> a sequence-derived counter value.
> Your goal was "But I don't want to store the counter value for every
> block to save some bytes."

Yes. But to ensure data integrity I need a hash value. And if this value can
also be the counter it's possible to omit an additional counter.

Grüße,
Jörg 

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