ietf-openpgp
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: [openpgp] 4880bis: Update S2K

2015-04-28 14:17:04
On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 19:55, ndurner(_at_)googlemail(_dot_)com said:

Besides that, what do others think about OpenPGP's variant of CFB - in
particular the computationally cheap oracle it entails? Should it also
be updated, perhaps with an authenticating cipher mode which might also

That is already on the list.  See for example AEAD at
https://wiki.gnupg.org/rfc4880bis

With the CAESAR competition conclusion being a bit more down the road -
end of 2017 - what would a suitable AE mode be?

Is it correct that the outcome of that competition might be a non-online
algorithm, meaning it it can't be used in a streaming mode (pipeline)?


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

-- 
Die Gedanken sind frei.  Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz.

_______________________________________________
openpgp mailing list
openpgp(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/openpgp