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

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Wed, 21 January 2015 16:28 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Watson Ladd <watsonbladd@gmail.com>
Thread-Topic: [TLS] Inclusion of OCB mode in TLS 1.3
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Inclusion of OCB mode in TLS 1.3
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> If you don't need to support them all, what's the cost (assuming they are all
> secure)?

That's a pretty weighty assumption.  And how do you decide which ones you have to support, which are MTI, etc?  How do you advise customers to use OCB over their favorite national cipher, like GOST or SEED?  Or Camellia?

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