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Re: [TLS] Fw: New Version Notification for draft-katagi-tls-clefia-00.txt

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org> Tue, 05 July 2011 07:46 UTC

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On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 3:33 AM, Masanobu Katagi
<Masanobu.Katagi@jp.sony.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
> We have submitted the Internet draft that defines cipher suites to support CLEFIA in TLS.
> http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-katagi-tls-clefia-00.txt
> CLEFIA is a 128-bit block cipher presented at FSE2007 and it is now used in commercial products.
> The algorithm of CLEFIA was published as RFC6114 in March 2011.
> CLEFIA is a lightweight block cipher compared with AES, Camellia, and SEED.
> We believe that CLEFIA will contribute to the Internet of Things as a lightweight cipher algorithm.

Hello,
 What is the use-case of this cipher in TLS? In particular what is the
point of having a lightweight
cipher combined with non-lightweight primitives such as RSA and Diffie
Hellman key exchange,
and SHA MACs?

regards,
Nikos

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