Re: [jose] AES+CBC algorithm

Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com> Sat, 06 July 2013 12:16 UTC

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In CMS, Peter Gutmann wrote RFC 6475 because he wanted a way to provide authenticated encryption on platforms that did not support AES-GCM or AES-CCM. I suggest that there are still many fewer of these platforms today, but there may still be a significant number of them.  Having AES-CBC with HMAC seems like a good idea to me.

Russ


On Jul 5, 2013, at 5:31 PM, Jim Schaad wrote:

> Are we going to lobby to get this algorithm adopted as an algorithm by the WebCrypto group?
>  
> Jim