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Re: aes128gcm: why verify padding?

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Mon, 23 January 2017 23:40 UTC

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From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: aes128gcm: why verify padding?
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On 23 January 2017 at 21:47, Manger, James
<James.H.Manger@team.telstra.com> wrote:
> A padding byte to distinguish intermediate and final records could indeed work.

I like it.  You can pad an arbitrary amount and you only pay one octet
per record overhead if you don't like padding, and the trailing record
requirement goes away.

> It doesn't consume any extra bytes in this scheme as it piggy-backs on an end-of-padding byte. But in a different multiple-AEAD-record scheme that didn't offer padding (a nice, but not strictly necessary feature) it wouldn't be so ideal. I've seen ideas to put the first-vs-intermediate-vs-last indicator in the nonce, in the KDF, in the AAD, in the record length, and now in the plaintext. I'm not sure how to pick.

I believe that it doesn't matter.

> What do you do if last non-zero byte isn't 0x01 or 0x02?

Explode and discard the data - it's corrupted.  If we don't require
that, then an attacker gains a decryption oracle.  (Same reason for
requiring that the padding be fixed in size.)

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