Looking at those emails, I am prompted to wonder if anyone can justify the existence of a ciphersuite with a double-sized key and half-sized authentication tag. RFC 6655 doesn't really explain how that is a useful thing.
On 10 August 2016 at 19:33, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2016-08-09 at 14:45 -0400, Sean Turner wrote: >> All, >> >> We've received a request for early IANA assignments for the 6 cipher >> suites listed in https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tls-ecdh >> e-psk-aead/. Please respond before August 23rd if you have concerns >> about early code point assignment for these cipher suites. > > I have previously raised an issue [0] on these ciphersuites. The same > requirement was noted also by Peter Dettman as something special in > [1]. However, there has been no reaction from the authors (now in CC). > > regards, > Nikos > > [0]. https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/tls/4PZsc_Dy-aT299BYrlBKvZs0BOQ > [1]. https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/tls/onEkdgH30eZgWs8v5Rp-CUqCHds > > _______________________________________________ > TLS mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tls _______________________________________________ TLS mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tls
