Re: AES counter mode

Peter Gutmann <[email protected]> Thu, 09 Oct 2014 04:39:39 +1300
Newsgroups gmane.comp.encryption.cryptlib
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Scott Neugroschl <[email protected]> writes:

>Is AES CTR supported?  Is aes_ctr_crypt() functional, or does it need work?

It's present, but only because it's used as part of AES-GCM.  AES-CTR isn't
used as a (mainstream) cipher in any standard that cryptlib supports, so the
interface isn't exposed externally, but you can still access it if you want to
bypass the cryptlib API and call aes_ctr_crypt() directly.

Peter.

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