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Re: [TLS] PR#346: Individual traffic key generation

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Tue, 17 November 2015 03:01 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] PR#346: Individual traffic key generation
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I have to ask why the continued insistence on calling the thing that
forms part of the nonce an "IV".  I find it to be misleading.

Also, it might be worth noting that the string "early data key
expansion, server write " is never needed.

On 16 November 2015 at 17:25, Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> wrote:
> https://github.com/tlswg/tls13-spec/pull/346
>
> As discussed in Seattle and Yokohama, I've broken out the traffic key
> generation
> into individual values. This makes life somewhat easier for those dealing
> the
> cryptographic modules, because some of this data needs to be public and some
> of it needs to be secret.
>
> This general change already had consensus, so I plan to merge it on
> Wednesday
> modulo major objections. Please advise here or on Github if you find any
> errors
> or you violently object.
>
> -Ekr
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