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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> Tue, 06 January 2015 10:24 UTC

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Michael Clark <michael@metaparadigm.com> writes:

>A TLSv1.3 ClientHello and ServerHello extensions could advertise something
>like this this:

Ugh, not, we don't need yet more extensions and complexity, we just need a
single set of options that everyone uses (see Grigg's Law, "There is only one
cipher suite and that is #1").

Peter.

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