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Re: [TLS] Inclusion of OCB mode in TLS 1.3

Matt Caswell <frodo@baggins.org> Tue, 13 January 2015 18:13 UTC

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On 13/01/15 17:28, Salz, Rich wrote:
>> There are, of course, reasons why people would not want to accept a
>> proposal like that.  More cipher suites isn't strictly a good thing.
>> Of course, if OCB is demonstrably better in some fashion (speed, security,
>> whatever it happens to be), then that makes the case easier.
> 
> That "no military use" being particularly problematic.  Does anyone know if the IETF has other IPR grants with similar field-of-use limitations?

For the record, the "no military use" clause only applies to the generic
OSI licence. It was that restriction that prevented OCB's inclusion in
OpenSSL for some while. The OpenSSL implementation uses a different licence:
https://www.openssl.org/docs/misc/OCB-patent-grant-OpenSSL.pdf

This is not encumbered by the no military use restriction.

Matt

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