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Re: [saag] [Cfrg] Re: TCP-AO MAC algorithms

Stephen Kent <kent@bbn.com> Wed, 02 January 2008 15:37 UTC

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Subject: Re: [saag] [Cfrg] Re: TCP-AO MAC algorithms
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Anoher issue to keep in mind is that a nonce-less MAC avoids the FIPS 
evaluation problems that would arise from attempts to make use of the 
TCP sequence number as an input to the nonce generation process.

Steve

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