Re: [CFRG] HPKE and AEAD Authentication Tag Length

Christopher Wood <caw@heapingbits.net> Wed, 25 August 2021 00:25 UTC

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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2021 17:24:43 -0700
From: Christopher Wood <caw@heapingbits.net>
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Subject: Re: [CFRG] HPKE and AEAD Authentication Tag Length
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Thanks, Joe! This is a fine clarification. We merged the PR.

Best,
Chris

On Mon, Aug 23, 2021, at 11:52 AM, Joseph Salowey wrote:
> In working on a Java HPKE implementation I found that specification 
> does not specify anything about the authentication tag length for the 
> AEAD cipher.  I opened issue #283 
> <https://github.com/cfrg/draft-irtf-cfrg-hpke/issues/238> and proposed 
> PR 239 <https://github.com/cfrg/draft-irtf-cfrg-hpke/pull/239> to 
> address this.  
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Joe
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