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

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Wed, 21 January 2015 16:23 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Aaron Zauner <azet@azet.org>, TLS Mailing List <tls@ietf.org>
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> Right now this ID would add twelve (12) new ciphersuites to
> the TLS ciphersuite registry, if we /can/ get rid of these two we're down to
> ten (10).

Gaak.

What does OCB bring to the table that justifies such a huge increase (10%) in the number of ciphers.

We need a cipher cage match.  They call go in, and only a couple come out.

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