[openssl-users] Questions about OCB and Wrap modes

Matt Caswell matt at openssl.org
Fri Mar 18 12:08:12 UTC 2016



On 15/03/16 11:12, Michel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> As there was some discussion about AEAD, I am still curious to know why
> OCB mode isn't flagged as one of them :
> 
> assert( EVP_CIPHER_flags( EVP_aes_128_ocb() ) &
> EVP_CIPH_FLAG_AEAD_CIPHER );    failed ?
> 
>  
> 
> Can someone please explain this to me ?

Yes. It's a bug! :-)

Now fixed in git.

Matt


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