Re: Bug #23500 - Raw AES Access?

Jim,

If I can make sure I understand your objection, it's because you don't
think other people are skilled enough, nor do you believe polyfills are a
valid use case?


On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Jim Schaad <ietf@augustcellars.com> wrote:

> I have a problem with dealing with this issue.  While I agree that it
> might be useful to allow for having raw ECB access to block encryption
> processes.  I think that the drawbacks of people actually have access to
> the ECB mode and thus getting things wrong is probably too great to allow
> for this.  I think this is one of those cases where if you want to get a
> funny block mode then forcing an implementer to also provide the block
> encryption algorithm as well is probably worthwhile.
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> I would say that this bug should be closed with no action.
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> Jim
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