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

Michael Clark <michael@metaparadigm.com> Wed, 14 January 2015 12:03 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] AAED ciphers: AES-GCM vs AES-EAX/AES-CCM: a meta-analysis
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On 14/1/15 2:32 am, Martin Thomson wrote:
> On 13 January 2015 at 10:23, Watson Ladd <watsonbladd@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pironti-tls-length-hiding-01 would be a
>>> good starting point, no?
>>
>> Seem to be, although I don't remember it being discussed on the list
>> before. We should fix this problem.
> 
> 
> We discussed it at some length at a meeting (Denver).  There was
> significant interest in doing this, though I think we agreed that we
> had to sort out a few things before the time was right.
> 
> See also https://github.com/tlswg/tls13-spec/issues/69

Interesting. Should draft-pironti-tls-length-hiding-01 be added to
Related Active Documents (not working group documents) section here:

    https://tools.ietf.org/wg/tls/

Michael

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