RE: Algorithm Selections

Hi Ed,
 
I don't believe that streaming media/content necessarily requires use of a
stream cipher; I think that really depends on the particular application and
whether it wants to be able to recover from partial data losses in the
stream.  I can imagine particular scenarios where the application could
accept data loss (say a frame of video) and want to resync the keystream
with the encrypted data.  But I don't think these are the common scenarios,
so I'm happy to only require support for a block cipher in CBC mode (or some
other appropriate mode(s) TBD by NIST [1]).
 
                    --bal
 
[1] http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/aes/modes/
<http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/aes/modes/> 

-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Simon [mailto:ed.simon@entrust.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 12:40 PM
To: 'xml-encryption@w3.org'
Subject: RE: Algorithm Selections


If XML Encryption is to be used for streaming media, as discussed in my
presentation at the work shop, then we will also need streaming ciphers.
 
Ed