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From: Ambarus Tudor-Dan-B38632 <b38632@freescale.com>
Subject: variable iv lengths for aes-gcm
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 10:43:18 +0300
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Hi Herbert,

I'm trying to find a method to pass IVs of various lengths to an 
algorithm. A particular case would be aes-gcm IV. It can have any number 
of bits between 1 and 2^64.

A possible way to do this is to set the ivlen per request. Are there any 
(better) ways to do this?

Thanks,
ta