Justus Winter <jus...@sequoia-pgp.org> writes: > we (Sequoia PGP) would love to see OCB being implemented in Nettle. The > OpenPGP working group is working on a revision of RFC4880, which will > mostly be a cryptographic refresh, and will bring AEAD to OpenPGP. > > The previous -now abandoned- draft called for EAX being mandatory, and > OCB being optional [0]. This was motivated by OCB being encumbered by > patents. However, said patents were waived by the holder [1]. > > 0: > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-openpgp-rfc4880bis-10#section-9.6 > 1: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/cfrg/qLTveWOdTJcLn4HP3ev-vrj05Vg/
That's good news, I hadn't seen that. Then OCB gets a lot more interesting. And https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7253 is a proper reference (there seems to be a couple of different versions of OCB)? > Unfortunately, we don't have the expertise in our team to contribute a > patch, and we currently aren't in a position to offer funding for the > implementation. If someone wants to work on it, please post to the list. I might look into it myself, but as you have noticed, I have rather limited hacking time. Regards, /Niels -- Niels Möller. PGP-encrypted email is preferred. Keyid 368C6677. Internet email is subject to wholesale government surveillance. _______________________________________________ nettle-bugs mailing list nettle-bugs@lists.lysator.liu.se http://lists.lysator.liu.se/mailman/listinfo/nettle-bugs
