Re: [TLS] padding bug

Michael D'Errico <mike-list@pobox.com> Tue, 24 September 2013 16:01 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] padding bug
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Peter Gutmann wrote:
> 
> TLS has for some years now provided for MAC truncation to a
> range of sizes.

I believe you are confusing the max_fragment_length extension
with truncated_hmac.  Truncated HMAC provides only one size,
80 bits, with the motivation being bandwidth constraints.

Mike