The chunking was introduced for just one purpose: To be able to detect rare
transmission errors earlier than at the end of the message.
...really? All this is just to save a few cpu cycles in the rare cases of data
corruption that should have been handled by other layers (filesystem / transport
layer) in the first place? Why even bother?
That said, I don't believe this is the long agreed upon and tiredly repeated
fact you phrased it to be. Consistenly specced, chunked AE contributes to
better behavior on average in implementations wrt emitting or processing
authenticated data. I fully agree with Adam's argument about this that Neal
quoted.
Changing the protocol in a way as suggested by you is not an option
anymore.
Oh. Why?
- V
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