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Google: Maintaining digital certificate security

Google: Maintaining digital certificate security

Posted Mar 25, 2015 23:29 UTC (Wed) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266)
In reply to: Google: Maintaining digital certificate security by Cyberax
Parent article: Google: Maintaining digital certificate security

AFAIK, to "omit" padding on CBC one has to do ciphertext stealing. You can't simply "omit padding bytes", a block cipher mixes a block throughly so that if even one bit of ciphertext is changed or lost, that block once decrypted is garbage.


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Google: Maintaining digital certificate security

Posted Mar 26, 2015 6:18 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Yes, you're certainly right. My bad. I used ciphers in block mode too long ago.


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