Re: V3 secret keys

[nagydani@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Daniel A. Nagy)]

On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 01:48:38PM +0000, Ben Laurie wrote:
> 
> in 5.5.3 it says:
> 
> "Furthermore, the CFB state is resynchronized at the beginning of each
> new MPI value,  so that the CFB block boundary is aligned with the start
> of the MPI data."
> 
> I can't find anywhere a precise (or even an imprecise) definition of
> "resynchronized". What exactly does it mean?
> 
> Does it mean that the IV is reset to whatever it was at the start of the
> current block? Does it mean that we use the partially-updated IV, but
> set the position back to the beginning? Does it mean we reset the IV to
> the initial value and start again? Or what?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ben.

It means the usual CFB synchronization with outputting a partial block and
shifting the IV.

-- 
Daniel