Re: Bug #23500 - Raw AES Access

So, does anyone object to closing Bug 23500 as WONTFIX ?

...Mark


On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Jim Schaad <ietf@augustcellars.com> wrote:

> Take #2 on this issue.
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> Looking at things last night, as long as we don't have a streaming mode of
> operation, it does not appear that using a ECB mode is going to be any more
> efficient than using either CBC or CTR as the basis for building something
> like an SIV mode.  Since one is going to need to create a new encrypt
> Promise for each block in order to chain things together.
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> Since this means that currently the only way to  be use ECB mode in an
> efficient manner is to use it as ECB, I would say that we should not
> include it.  It might however be worth having a note about how to use CTR
> mode to build new modes in the future in script.
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> This decision would then be re-visited when we have streaming as a
> primitive operation.
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> Jim
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