Cryptographic Token Interface Standard

PKCS#11

BATON-COUNTER

BATON-COUNTER, denoted CKM_BATON_COUNTER, is a mechanism for single- and multiple-part encryption and decryption with BATON in counter mode.

It has a parameter, a 24-byte initialization vector. During an encryption operation, this IV is set to some value generated by the token"in other words, the application cannot specify a particular IV when encrypting. It can, of course, specify a particular IV when decrypting.

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table: 




 Table 95, BATON-COUNTER: Data and Length   
Function Key type 

Input length

 

Output length

 

Comments

   


C_Encrypt BATON 

multiple of 16

 

same as input length

 

no final part

   


C_Decrypt BATON 

multiple of 16

 

same as input length

 

no final part

  

 



 
 



RSA Security Inc. Public-Key Cryptography Standards - 
PKCS#11 - v210