Re: [TLS] draft-sheffer-tls-bcp: DH recommendations

mrex@sap.com (Martin Rex) Thu, 19 September 2013 02:47 UTC

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Martin Rex wrote:
> 
> I'm not a cryptographer, but I'm actually not convinced that
> counter modes of AES are a road I want to travel.  (I'm wondering:
> do we actually know the length of the cycles of AES in counter mode?
> Is there a paper describing what assumption the security of counter
> modes are based on, and formal proofs that AES actually has all
> these properties?)

I should have first read what counter mode actually means,
such as http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3686#section-2

I'm sorry.

-Martin