Re: Binary packet protocol rethink (was: Re: ChaCha20-Poly1305 for SSH)

"Mark D. Baushke" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.secsh
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Damien Miller <[email protected]> writes:

> While we're dropping wishlist items for SSH v.3, here's one of mine:
> 
> Key exchange negotiates an AEAD rather than a cipher and a MAC
> separately, and does so from a greatly trimmed set of options. E.g.
> AES-GCM, chacha20+poly1305 and an AES-CTR+HMAC mode.

+1

This would be useful.

	-- Mark
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