Re: [openpgp] OpenPGP SEIP downgrade attack

[Werner Koch <[e-mail]>]

On Thu,  8 Oct 2015 16:59, [e-mail] said:

> (It's also not clear whether someone encrypting a 10k email message with PGP
> is going to notice it being processed at 100MB/s or 150MB/s).

I heard of backups somewhat larger than that.  For mail it is anyway not a
problem - you sign and encrypt and you are done.  Not even a need for an
MDC.

> (I actually really like OCB and don't like GCM much, but the patent situation
> makes it pretty problematic).

Well, for the majority of uses cases there is a gratis license grant
from Phil Rogaway for his patents.
Further daft-zauner-tls-aes-ocb-03.txt states:

   6.  Intellectual Propery Rights Issues

   Historically OCB Mode has seen difficulty with deployment and
   standardization because of pending patents and intellectual rights
   claims on OCB itself.  In preparation of this document all interested
   parties have declared they will issue IPR statements exempting use of
   OCB Mode in TLS from these claims.  Specifically - OCB Mode as
   described in this document for use in TLS - is based, and strongly
   influenced, by earlier work from Charanjit Jutla on [IAPM].

At IETF-93 this case was mentioned and it was suggested to ask for a
similar licenses exception [1,2] if we consider to use OCB for OpenPGP.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner


[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/2647/
[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/2640/

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