On 22 May 2014 12:58, William Chan (陈智昌) <willchan@chromium.org> wrote:
> agl@ thought it'd be nice if we could change the spec [to be AEAD only].
> Is this controversial? Can we change the spec's guidance here to be more
> strict?
>
Andrei, can you comment on the availability of AEAD ciphers in schannel?
[1] shows them as only being available with ECDSA certificates.
One data point that might be relevant to this discussion is that TLS 1.3
*only* supports AEAD modes. But this proposal seems to go a little further
than that by selecting a very narrow set of acceptable suites.
--Martin
[1]
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa374757%28v=vs.85%29.aspx