RE: Specifying RC2 40-bit encryption

"Colestock, Robert" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.sfl
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Jonathan:

The SMIME V3 specification dictates these lengths.  The SFL does not allow
you to change the lengths in either the RSA nor the Free3 CTILs in the
construction of messages.  You can override these settings if you wish in
the source code through the sm_rsa.h (SM_RSA_RC2_DEFAULT_KEYBITS in bits) or
sm_free3.h (SM_FREE_RC2_KEYLEN in bytes  & SM_FREE_3DES_KEYLEN, I do not
believe this can be other than 24 bits???) constants, but be aware you will
not be able to use the correct lengths to construct messages.

No guarantees on operations with this change; I have not tested this logic
with such settings, you are on your own.  If you notice some discrepancies,
I will fix them in the baseline (so long as I can reconcile such changes
with the SMIME V3 requirements).

Received messages use the length specified in the message, so an RC2 40 bit
encrypted message can be decrypted.

Bob Colestock
VDA.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Schulze-Hewett [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 10:48 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Specifying RC2 40-bit encryption


I cannot tell how to specify the different sizes for RC2 nor DES in the
SFL...Anyone care to enlighten me? For example how do I tell it to to 40
bit RC2 encryption?

thanks,
jonathan
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