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

Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> Wed, 24 December 2014 06:15 UTC

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From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
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Michael Clark <michael@metaparadigm.com> writes:

>I have been doing some independent research on TLS AEAD ciphers and decided
>to share a meta-analysis on AES-GCM versus AES-EAX/AES-CCM

If you're going to look at these, what about also looking at encrypt-then-MAC,
which is another AEAD mechanism?

Peter.

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