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[openpgp] Proposal to include AEAD OCB mode to 4880bis

2017-10-25 04:16:56
Hi OpenPGP WG,

There has been some discussion in the group some time ago about OCB, but back 
then the AEAD requirements were not set in stone.

Since bis-02 now formally defines the AEAD packet and an AEAD algorithm 
registry, I’d like to bring up the topic again of adding OCB to the draft given 
its clear benefits. There have been previous mentions of patent concerns, but 
OCB is freely licensed for open source tools and has been included in libraries 
like OpenSSL and Botan.

I have submitted a merge request to the document repository, and the diffs can 
be seen below.

Merge request
* https://gitlab.com/openpgp-wg/rfc4880bis/merge_requests/8

Diffs
* https://gitlab.com/openpgp-wg/rfc4880bis/merge_requests/8/diffs

Please feel free to let me know what you think. Thanks!

Kind regards,
Ron

P.S. this merge request includes 
https://gitlab.com/openpgp-wg/rfc4880bis/merge_requests/7 as the document 
wasn’t “buildable” due to a missing reference to RFC 7748.

_____________________________________

Ronald Tse
Ribose Inc.

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