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Re: [TLS] AAED ciphers: AES-GCM vs AES-EAX/AES-CCM: a meta-analysis

Michael Clark <michael@metaparadigm.com> Thu, 25 December 2014 01:37 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] AAED ciphers: AES-GCM vs AES-EAX/AES-CCM: a meta-analysis
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On 25/12/14 9:34 am, Michael Clark wrote:
> The other point being to remove MAC-then-encrypt from TLSv1.3, not
> necessarily AES-CBC (as its non parallelism is a good property in
> certain situations).
>
> The principle is considering TLSv1.3 from a 'profile' perspective and
> that the 'known problematic' MAC-then-encrypt could be supported by
> implementations that choose to offer TLSv1.2 (and older) profiles and
> drop encrypt-then-MAC and make MAC-then-encrypt mandatory in the TLSv1.3

correction:

drop MAC-then-encrypt and make encrypt-then-MAC mandatory in the TLSv1.3

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