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Re: [TLS] Inclusion of OCB mode in TLS 1.3

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Tue, 13 January 2015 17:29 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>, Aaron Zauner <azet@azet.org>
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> There are, of course, reasons why people would not want to accept a
> proposal like that.  More cipher suites isn't strictly a good thing.
> Of course, if OCB is demonstrably better in some fashion (speed, security,
> whatever it happens to be), then that makes the case easier.

That "no military use" being particularly problematic.  Does anyone know if the IETF has other IPR grants with similar field-of-use limitations?

	/r$

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