Re: null ciphers in 9.2.2

Hi Martin,

Given that this thread was quickly hijacked to discuss other issues, and no one has actually given feedback on this, I think that’s a reasonable clarification.

Cheers,


On 27 Sep 2014, at 1:49 am, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> wrote:

> As a clarification, I think that we need to be sure to say that the
> null cipher is not permitted.
> 
> Technically, the null cipher is a stream cipher, but this isn't made
> explicit in the draft.
> 
> I'm going to add this to the chain of changes I have for 9.2.2, since
> I hate managing conflicts.  So it won't hit the main spec until we
> resolve that issue.
> 

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