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Kevin_Stewart
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Mar 13, 2008

AES functions

Hello Devcentral gurus,     Does anyone know the specifics of the AES functions and how they work. Specifically, look at the following code snippet:     set testkey "test"   set testdat...
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IheartF5_45022
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Dec 06, 2011
So...looky what is in the release notes for 11.1? Pity they don't tell us HOW to use the new functionality in an iRule. I need it!! I will ping our account team to get some doco released on this.

 

 

I would also like to know if encrypting on v11.1 and decrypting on another F5 on 11.0 is gonna cause any problems as I seem to have some issues.....Cryptographic Operations for iRules

In this release, iRules support encryption and decryption of data that is compatible with external devices. iRules support includes the following ciphers:

 

  • RC4
  • DES
  • 3DES
  • AES

Additionally, iRules support includes the following encryption modes:

  • ECB
  • CBC
  • CTR