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Re: [openpgp] AEAD Chunk Size

"Derek Atkins" <derek@ihtfp.com> Thu, 18 April 2019 17:41 UTC

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Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 13:41:22 -0400
From: Derek Atkins <derek@ihtfp.com>
To: Bart Butler <bartbutler@protonmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [openpgp] AEAD Chunk Size
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No objections from me!
Thanks Bart!
-derek

On Thu, April 18, 2019 1:28 pm, Bart Butler wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Jon and I got on the phone today and discussed the AEAD chunk situation a
> little more. The compromise we reached is:
>
> (1) MUST support chunks up to and including 8KiB.
> (2) SHOULD NOT emit chunks larger than 8KiB.
> (3) SHOULD reject chunks larger than 8KiB.
>
> Jon likes this because it doesn't fully shut the door on experimentation.
> I like this because it strengthens the norm and puts the burden of
> justification for violating the norm on the person asking for huge chunks
> rather than the implementer. I expect (though please correct me if not)
> that Derek, Neil, and others working on embedded or otherwise constrained
> system will like this because the normative limit is low enough for most
> embedded/constrained systems to do streaming when incremental no-release
> semantics are desired. And I hope Werner likes this because GnuPG is
> already doing 8KiB chunks, so the work involved in changing GnuPG's
> implementation should be minimal :)
>
> Does anyone have any objections to or comments regarding this language?
>
> Thanks,
>
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