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Re: [IPsec] comments on draft-ietf-ipsecme-aes-ctr-ikev2-05.txt

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Mon, 08 March 2010 19:47 UTC

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Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:47:32 -0800
To: Dan Harkins <dharkins@lounge.org>
From: Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>
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Subject: Re: [IPsec] comments on draft-ietf-ipsecme-aes-ctr-ikev2-05.txt
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At 11:17 AM -0800 3/8/10, Dan Harkins wrote:
>  Let me take this opportunity to point out that RFC 5297 describes
>an AES-CTR variant that does not have the performance benefits that
>GCM has but provides nonce misuse/abuse resistance.

It feels like your comment is unrelated to this thread, unless you are proposing that draft-ietf-ipsecme-aes-ctr-ikev2 needs to reference every single variant, even those that are not on standards track. If that is what you are saying, please propose wording for the WG to look at.

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