Re: [tcpinc] Review of draft-bittau-tcpinc-tcpeno-01

ianG <iang@iang.org> Wed, 26 August 2015 16:09 UTC

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On 24/08/2015 18:44 pm, Yoav Nir wrote:
> AES-GCM vs ChaCha20/Poly1305. Which is superior?

To dig us out of this rabbit hole, I suggest the question should not be 
which is better, but what is the method by which we pick?

I posit that the objective & aligned way is to tell the proposer of the 
draft to pick.  E.g., David for tcpcrypt.  Eric for tls-in-tcp.

Done deal.

iang