Mališa Vučinić <[email protected]> wrote:
    tero> EBs CANNOT be encrypted in TSCH. To be able to decrypt the EBs the
    tero> receiving node would need to know the ASN, but it cannot know it as
    tero> the ASN would be in the encrypted part of the EB. Because of this
    tero> EBs cannot be encrypted when using TSCH.

    tero> This is fundamental property of the TSCH, it is not something we
    tero> choose not to do.

    > I am confused by your definition of "fundamental". Isn't this the
    > consequence of TSCH synchronization IE being part of the payload,
    > instead of the frame header in the IEEE standard?

Yes, but from the point of view of 6tisch, the design is a given.
It's not something we can change, it forms the foundation on which we
build...  Maybe fundamental isn't the right word, particularly across three
languages, but Tero's point is that it isn't something we have a choice
about.

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Michael Richardson <[email protected]>, Sandelman Software Works
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