Re: Bug 24755 - Decide which AES-CFB shift sizes to support

Should we in fact rename the WebCrypto "AES-CFB" to "AES-CFB-8" even if it
remains the only one ?

...Mark


On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Jim Schaad <ietf@augustcellars.com> wrote:

> Minimum change would be to change the JOSE algorithm names to add the
> size.  This is required in many ways based on how JOSE algorithm names are
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> Jim
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> *From:* Mark Watson [mailto:watsonm@netflix.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, February 20, 2014 1:43 PM
> *To:* public-webcrypto@w3.org
> *Subject:* Bug 24755 - Decide which AES-CFB shift sizes to support
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> Presently, the document describes only CFB-8.
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> If we wish to support other values of the shift size, s, we need to either
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> (a) add s as an additional parameter to AesCfbParams
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> (b) defined separate algorithm names, e.g. "AES-CFB-8", "AES-CFB-128" etc.
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> In offline discussion with Ryan we have a preference for (b).
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> Of course it is also an option to leave this as CFB-8 only.
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> https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=24755
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> Comments ?
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> ...Mark
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