On Monday, October 19, 2015, Martin Thomson <martin.thom...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 19 October 2015 at 11:17, Eric Rescorla <e...@rtfm.com <javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> > Yeah, I think that's riding the nonce far too hard.
>
> On what basis?  Any change in the nonce will cause the record
> decryption to fail.  That's the property we're looking for here, isn't
> it?


I don't believe that there's any reason to include the sequence number in
the AD input of an AEAD. I think that an empty AD for TLS would be fine now
that the content type is encrypted. (Not that I deeply care either way.)


Cheers

AGL


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