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Adam Langley <agl@imperialviolet.org> Tue, 18 February 2014 01:59 UTC

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On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 3:09 AM, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
<nmav@redhat.com> wrote:
> If the idea is for AEAD to be used by an average developer, it seems we
> need even a higher abstraction than that; even for such a simple
> use-cases.

I certainly agree with this. In some sense we already have this in the
shape of the TLS record protocol itself, but it doesn't lend itself to
being reused in a non-transport setting very well.


Cheers

AGL

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