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

On Fri, 27 Oct 2017 02:26, paul(_at_)nohats(_dot_)ca said:

> For IETF standards, optional or mandatory to implement, it should be 
> unencumbered and free to use.
rfc2440 and rfc4880 both included IDEA as a SHOULD algorithm despite
that IDEA was patent encumbered.  Also RSA was patent encumbered when
2440 was published and nevertheless a SHOULD algorithm.

Ronald proposed OCB as a MAY algorithm so that by the time the patent
expires it can be used.  We will anyway require a couple of years before
a new algorithm can be used.  It is up to the implementation to announce
support for certain algorithms.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner


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