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Re: [TLS] Comments on various things on agenda (Was: Re: TLS Interim - update and agenda)

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Sun, 08 March 2015 20:01 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Comments on various things on agenda (Was: Re: TLS Interim - update and agenda)
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On the question of MTIs...

I've no strong opinion on whether this would be good or bad, but
there is a perhaps-minor but real "rift" between devices supporting
GCM and those supporting CCM, and I've heard it postulated that
a cha-cha based ciphersuite could be the common denominator that
provides interop between those classes of device. I guess that's
an argument for making both ciphersuites MTI (note: I'm not claiming
it's a winning argument, but it is a thing to consider).

S.

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