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Re: [TLS] Include Speck block cipher?

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Fri, 18 March 2016 02:09 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Include Speck block cipher?
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On 18 March 2016 at 12:37, Mike Hamburg <mike@shiftleft.org> wrote:
> No.  The goal should be to remove ciphers, not add new ones, unless we have
> a really compelling reason.

A necessary, but sufficient set of reasons might include:

1. thorough cryptanalysis
2. advantages over existing ciphers on important metrics like security
and speed, though this would likely need to be significant at this
point
3. interest in implementation

Speck is 0 from 3.

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