On Fri, 5 Jan 2018 10:52:01 -0800 William Bathurst <wbath...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 1) Community interest in such a lightweight cipher. I think there's a shifting view that "more is not always good" in crypto. OpenSSL has added features in the past "just because" and it was often a bad decision. Therefore I'd generally oppose adding ciphers without a clear usecase, as increased code complexity has a cost. So I think questions that should be answered: What's the usecase for speck in OpenSSL? Are there plans to use it in TLS? If yes why? By whom? What advantages does it have over existing ciphers? (Yeah, it's "lightweight", but that's a pretty vague thing.) Also just for completeness, as some may not be aware: There are some concerns about Speck due to its origin (aka the NSA). I don't think that is a reason to dismiss a cipher right away, what I'd find more concerning is that from what I observed there hasn't been a lot of research about speck. -- Hanno Böck https://hboeck.de/ mail/jabber: ha...@hboeck.de GPG: FE73757FA60E4E21B937579FA5880072BBB51E42 -- openssl-dev mailing list To unsubscribe: https://mta.openssl.org/mailman/listinfo/openssl-dev