[CFRG] AES-CTR + HMAC-SHA-256 AEAD

John Mattsson <john.mattsson@ericsson.com> Fri, 12 March 2021 23:12 UTC

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From: John Mattsson <john.mattsson@ericsson.com>
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Subject: [CFRG] AES-CTR + HMAC-SHA-256 AEAD
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Hi,

In the CFRG chat today, Richard Barnes asked for reviews of https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-omara-sframe-01#section-4.5.1

I think standardizing an AES-CTR + HMAC-SHA-256 AEAD seems very useful. The design in 4.5.1 looks very good. Some comments:

- I think the nonce length Nn ciphersuite 1 and 2 should be 16. I don't see any reason to not use 16 bytes radnomness/salt. 

- It looks like the frame counter CTR and the block counter collide, but maybe I miss something.

- I note that only the aad_len is authenticated, while GCM authenticated both aad_len and ct_len. I don't know what is correct.

Cheers,
John