On Feb 18, 2013, at 5:43 AM, Peter Gutmann <pgut...@cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> Bodo Moeller <bmoel...@acm.org> writes: > >> If you wonder why NSS would prefer Camellia over AES (I sure did), here's the >> rationale. (Not a very good one, in my opinion -- if servers in certain >> countries are expected to have a strong preference for certain ciphersuites, >> those servers should override client preferences rather than hope that >> clients list them at higher priority than AES.) > > Another option is: > > switch( locale ) > case Japan: cipher = Camellia; > case Russia: cipher = GOST; > case Korea: cipher = SEED; > case France: cipher = JEAN_PAUL_GAULTIER; // Since we're making fashion > statements > ... > case Burkina_Faso: cipher = whatever; > > This one would make more sense than forcing everyone to use Japan's vanity > cipher. I like this approach, although I would change "cipher" to "one_of_the_ciphers_offered" or maybe "first_cipher_offered", not the only cipher offered. --Paul Hoffman _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
