Re: Change to padding in encryption -- enabling random access

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Mon, 30 January 2017 06:31 UTC

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From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 17:27:12 +1100
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Subject: Re: Change to padding in encryption -- enabling random access
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On 30 January 2017 at 17:04, Manger, James
<James.H.Manger@team.telstra.com> wrote:
> Padding is in-band even when the encryptor doesn't want to use any, so an in-band signal that there is no earlier padding doesn't feel like complexity that is out-of-place.

That would be true if you consider the random access use case to be
common enough to justify any complexity at all.