Re: [TLS] About TLS 1.2 AEAD ciphers definition

["Rob P Williams" <[e-mail]>]

Michael Gray wrote on Thursday, May 27, 2010 5:05 PM

> Juho Vähä-Herttua wrote on 28/05/2010 02:42:18 AM:
>
> >
> > The only currently defined AEAD ciphers seem to be AES_128_GCM and
> > AES_256_GCM defined by RFC 5288. I'm a bit surprised that AES
> > encryption doesn't introduce padding though, it might be just me
> > misunderstanding the GCM process but I thought it still needs to pad
> > the input data to match the block size, doesn't it? The TLSv1
> > explicit padding of CBC ciphers is not present in the AEAD ciphers
> > at all. RFC 5288 doesn't define any kind of padding either, which
> > makes me wonder how it is actually implemented...

> RFC 5289 Defines additional ECC GCM Cipher Suites

They are all still AES_128/256_GCM...

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