/* ICM.java -- Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is a part of GNU Classpath. GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with GNU Classpath; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole combination. As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend this exception to your version of the library, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version. */ package gnu.javax.crypto.mode; import gnu.java.security.Registry; import gnu.javax.crypto.cipher.IBlockCipher; import java.math.BigInteger; /** * An implementation of David McGrew Integer Counter Mode (ICM) as an * {@link IMode}. *
* ICM is a way to define a pseudorandom keystream generator using a block * cipher. The keystream can be used for additive encryption, key derivation, or * any other application requiring pseudorandom data. In the case of this class, * it is used as additive encryption, XOR-ing the keystream with the input text * --for both encryption and decryption. *
* In ICM, the keystream is logically broken into segments. Each segment is * identified with a segment index, and the segments have equal lengths. This * segmentation makes ICM especially appropriate for securing packet-based * protocols. ICM also allows a variety of configurations based, among other * things, on two parameters: the block index length and the segment * index length. A constraint on those two values exists: The sum of * segment index length and block index length must not * half the block size of the underlying cipher. This requirement * protects the ICM keystream generator from potentially failing to be * pseudorandom. *
* For simplicity, this implementation, fixes these two values to the following: *
* For a 128-bit block cipher, the above values imply a maximum keystream length
* of 295,147,905,179,352,825,856 octets, since in ICM, each segment must not
* exceed the value
* (256 ^ block index length) * block length
* octets.
*
* Finally, for this implementation of the ICM, the IV placeholder will be used * to pass the value of the Offset in the keystream segment. *
* References: *