[PATCH 1/3] whirlpool: do bitcount calculation in finalization part

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Fri Sep 20 15:21:05 CEST 2013


On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 20:16, jussi.kivilinna at iki.fi said:

> With 256-bit counter, overflow happens after ~1.3e67 gigabytes. With 64-bit
> block counter, overflow happens just after ~1.1e12 gigabytes.

You better check with the NSA that this is okay for their data centers
;-)


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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