Bug #23500 - Raw AES Access?

I have a problem with dealing with this issue.  While I agree that it might
be useful to allow for having raw ECB access to block encryption processes.
I think that the drawbacks of people actually have access to the ECB mode
and thus getting things wrong is probably too great to allow for this.  I
think this is one of those cases where if you want to get a funny block mode
then forcing an implementer to also provide the block encryption algorithm
as well is probably worthwhile.

 

I would say that this bug should be closed with no action.

 

Jim