On Monday 24 August 2015 19:25:24 Hanno Böck wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Aug 2015 10:21:42 +0000
> 
> Alessandro Ghedini via RT <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Which adds support for Camellia GCM and adds the correspondent TLS
> > cipher suites. Most of the code comes from the AES GCM
> > implementation, so maybe there's an opportunity for some refactoring
> > there.
> 
> May I ask one question: Why?

because it's the only standardised, widely audited and recommended alternative 
to AES, having a different cryptographic construction (Feistel network) that 
has been studied even longer is also a good thing

> After all the whole
> heartbleed story can largely be explained by that. I'd propose that
> OpenSSL doesn't add any new features without a clear explanation what
> advantage they bring in which situation - and who is likely going to
> use that feature.

bugs happen, refusing to accept patches just because they can have bugs is 
short sighted at best

or can I expect you to express the exact same concerns when ChaCha20 patches 
will be proposed?
-- 
Regards,
Hubert Kario
Quality Engineer, QE BaseOS Security team
Web: www.cz.redhat.com
Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkyňova 99/71, 612 45, Brno, Czech Republic

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