Fine with me. On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com> wrote: > 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. >> >> >> >> 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. >> >> >> >> 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. >> >> >> >> This decision would then be re-visited when we have streaming as a >> primitive operation. >> >> >> >> Jim >> >> >> > >
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