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

Joe Hall <joe@cdt.org> Mon, 26 January 2015 18:47 UTC

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From: Joe Hall <joe@cdt.org>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 13:46:49 -0500
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Subject: Re: [TLS] AAED ciphers: AES-GCM vs AES-EAX/AES-CCM: a meta-analysis
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On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 8:26 PM, Tom Ritter <tom@ritter.vg> wrote:
>
> On Jan 14, 2015 11:20 AM, "Martin Thomson" <martin.thomson@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 14 January 2015 at 04:02, Michael Clark <michael@metaparadigm.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Interesting. Should draft-pironti-tls-length-hiding-01 be added to
>> > Related Active Documents (not working group documents) section
>>
>> That's an automatically generated list.  I suspect the reason that it
>> doesn't appear is that it is presently expired.
>
> Something I feel very bad about. I am a big proponent of making length
> hiding possible in 1.3 and need to find time to put more effort into this.
> I encourage the chairs or WG to bug me if they don't see anything about this
> in a timeframe they expect.

Wasn't the discussion in Denver of the flavor that applications will
have to do length-hiding right if they want it to be secure so it
doesn't make sense to do it in TLS? I'm probably mischaracterizing
that, but I thought the outcome was more definitive than "maybe
someone will get to it". (i.e., some thought it would be a bad idea to
do it at all as it would be easy for applications to use it in an
insecure manner)

Apologies if this question is horribly naive. best, Joe

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