[messaging] Padding

Adam Langley agl at imperialviolet.org
Sun Jun 8 12:22:12 PDT 2014


On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 10:12 PM, David Leon Gil <coruus at gmail.com> wrote:
> Q1. Does any publicly available messaging cryptosystem use exponential
> padding?

Pond pads to max(p) for some reasonable value of human typed message
(~15KB). However, attachments don't follow that distribution and are
padded up to the nearest power of two.

(You already knew that - just pointing it out for others.)


Cheers

AGL

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