Re: Change to padding in encryption -- enabling random access from Martin Thomson on 2017-01-30 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from January to March 2017)

From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 17:27:12 +1100
To: "Manger, James" <James.H.Manger@team.telstra.com>
Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CABkgnnU2vrvpBv_nDGRDEP5VUsAhqVamSZufnFsgU67FA2rODw@mail.gmail.com>

On 30 January 2017 at 17:04, Manger, James
<James.H.Manger@team.telstra.com> wrote:
> Padding is in-band even when the encryptor doesn't want to use any, so an in-band signal that there is no earlier padding doesn't feel like complexity that is out-of-place.

That would be true if you consider the random access use case to be
common enough to justify any complexity at all.

Received on Monday, 30 January 2017 06:28:01 UTC