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Re: [jose] #20: Shorter names for JSON serialization

"Manger, James H" <James.H.Manger@team.telstra.com> Wed, 08 May 2013 00:34 UTC

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From: "Manger, James H" <James.H.Manger@team.telstra.com>
To: Mike Jones <Michael.Jones@microsoft.com>, Richard Barnes <rlb@ipv.sx>, Jim Schaad <ietf@augustcellars.com>
Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 10:34:09 +1000
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How about “nonce”, instead of “iv”?

“nonce” is used for the equivalent field in other RFCs about AEAD algorithms: RFC 5116 AEAD, RFC 5297 SIV, RFC 3610 CCM. Some of these use the name “IV” for different things than the AEAD nonce.
NIST 800-38D GCM does uses “IV”, though it is defined as “A nonce that is associated with an invocation of authenticated encryption on a particular plaintext and AAD”. RFC 5084 “CCM & GCM in CMS” even says:
  “To have a common set of terms for AES-CCM and AES-GCM, the AES-GCM IV is referred to as a nonce in the remainder of this document.”

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James Manger

From: jose-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:jose-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Mike Jones
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Subject: Re: [jose] #20: Shorter names for JSON serialization

What about “iv” and “tag”?  For the other names, I’d actually prefer staying with those that are full words rather than those that are abbreviations of words, since they’re more descriptive.  But I agree that “initialization_vector” and “authentication_tag” were overkill.

                                                            -- Mike

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