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Re: [TLS] Use-case for non-AEAD ciphers in network monitoring

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Mon, 17 May 2021 17:24 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Florian Wilkens <wilkens@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>, "tls@ietf.org" <tls@ietf.org>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Use-case for non-AEAD ciphers in network monitoring
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Without commenting on the use-case itself, I am concerned that people will not appreciate "drop AEAD and its assurance of authenticity" would now also  mean "can be passively monitored."

I will point out that anyone can publish write a draft and request numbers to be assigned (e.g., look for GOSTR341112 or the integrity-only ciphers just before that in https://www.iana.org/assignments/tls-parameters/tls-parameters.xhtml#tls-parameters-4).

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