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Re: [TLS] Data Volume Limits Analysis

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Fri, 29 April 2016 03:40 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Data Volume Limits Analysis
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On 9 March 2016 at 09:16, aluykx <Atul.Luykx@esat.kuleuven.be> wrote:
> Kenny Paterson and I prepared a document providing an overview of how much
> data ChaCha20+Poly1305 and AES-GCM can process with a single key. Besides
> summarizing the results, the document also gives an explanation of why the
> limits are there. The document confirms the analysis done by Watson and
> others in the thread on "Data Volume Limits", but goes into more detail.

Hi Atul,

Just to confirm, but this analysis is for all variants of AES-GCM
regardless of key size?  From formula (7) it shows that attack
probability is directly a function of block size and the number of
blocks.

--Martin

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