Re: [Cfrg] draft-housley-ccm-mode-00.txt

daw@mozart.cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner) Thu, 15 August 2002 19:27 UTC

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Hi Russ,

Thanks for the advance notice.  As you write your Internet-Draft, can I
encourage you to write a comparison (advantages, disadvantages) between
CCM and the less fancy encrypt-then-authenticate generic composition of
CBC mode encryption and CBC-MAC authentication (suitably modified to be
secure for variable-length messages)?

-- David

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