[saag] Errata 4338 - AEAD

Michael StJohns <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.saag,gmane.ietf.irtf.cfrg
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https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid4338


        RFC 5116 <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5116>, "An Interface
        and Algorithms for Authenticated Encryption", January 2008

Recommend: Reject

This seems to be about what constitutes a nonce for an AEAD scheme, and 
whether the nonce contains a "counter".   I think this is a stylistic 
comment rather than a technical one, as I remember many discussions 
about a counter being a nonce, but a nonce not being a counter, but 
could be formed from data including a counter... *sigh*

Dave McGrew was the author and I think this was AD sponsored in SEC. But 
its crypto so CFRG should take a quick look.

Mike

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