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

Tapio Sokura <tapio.sokura@iki.fi> Sat, 20 December 2014 18:21 UTC

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

On 20.12.2014 10:52, Michael Clark wrote:
>       CipherSuite TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_128_EAX_SHA256
>       CipherSuite TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_256_EAX_SHA384
>       CipherSuite TLS_ECDHE_DSS_WITH_AES_128_EAX_SHA256
>       CipherSuite TLS_ECDHE_DSS_WITH_AES_256_EAX_SHA384
>       CipherSuite TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_128_CCM_SHA256
>       CipherSuite TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_256_CCM_SHA384
>       CipherSuite TLS_ECDHE_DSS_WITH_AES_128_CCM_SHA256
>       CipherSuite TLS_ECDHE_DSS_WITH_AES_256_CCM_SHA384

A bit off-topic on the actual question, but: Is DSS used anymore? Should
these be ECDSA instead?

  Tapio

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