Arcfour fixed
Werner Koch
wk@gnupg.org
02 Aug 2001 11:53:13 +0200
Hi,
2 silly bugs stopped us from using Arcfour in Libgcrypt.
Here is the fix against 1.1.3:
Index: arcfour.c
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RCS file: /cvs/gnupg/libgcrypt/cipher/arcfour.c,v
retrieving revision 1.3
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.3 -r1.4
--- arcfour.c 2001/05/31 14:16:54 1.3
+++ arcfour.c 2001/08/02 09:48:40 1.4
@@ -78,8 +78,8 @@
if( selftest_failed )
return GCRYERR_SELFTEST;
- if( keylen < 40 )
- return GCRYERR_INV_KEYLEN;
+ if( keylen < 40/8 ) /* we want at least 40 bits */
+ return GCRYERR_INV_KEYLEN;
ctx->idx_i = ctx->idx_j = 0;
for (i=0; i < 256; i++ )
@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@
encrypt_stream( &ctx, scratch, plaintext_1, sizeof(plaintext_1));
if (memcmp (scratch, ciphertext_1, sizeof (ciphertext_1)))
return "Arcfour encryption test 1 failed.";
+ arcfour_setkey( &ctx, key_1, sizeof(key_1));
encrypt_stream(&ctx, scratch, scratch, sizeof(plaintext_1)); /* decrypt */
if ( memcmp (scratch, plaintext_1, sizeof (plaintext_1)))
return "Arcfour decryption test 1 failed.";
@@ -159,7 +160,3 @@
return "ARCFOUR";
return NULL;
}
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