TLS 1.3 currently has AES-256-GCM and ChaCha20-Poly1305 as 256-bit
ciphers.  AES-CCM ciphers are more oriented towards an IOT niche where CCM
is implemented for lower layer protocols.  I'm not sure if there are
implementations of AES-256-CCM or AES-256-CCM_8  in use.

Joe

On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 7:12 AM, William Whyte <wwh...@onboardsecurity.com>
wrote:

> Right. I fee l strongly that it'd be wise to bless a single 256-bit cipher
> as part of the core TLS 1.3 family of techniques, but I don't feel strongly
> that it should be AES-256. ChaCha?
>
> Cheers,
>
> William
>
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 9:55 AM, Salz, Rich <rs...@akamai.com> wrote:
>
>> > There's an argument that it's worth building in a 256-bit cipher for
>> quantum resistance. Not clear that AES-256 is the best 256-bit cipher
>> though.
>>
>> Yes, I get that.
>>
>> "not clear" is a highly uncompelling argument, tho.
>>
>
>
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