Tero Kivinen <[email protected]> wrote:
    > Pascal Thubert (pthubert) writes:
    >> Do you have an intention to add text like this in a draft or in annex
    >> of a draft?

    > I think it will be enough for our IETF drafts to just say:

    >   Implementations MUST use different L2 keys when using different MIC
    > lengths, as using same key with different MIC lengths might be unsafe
    > (i.e., using same key for both MIC-32 and MIC-64). See IEEE 802.15.4
    > Annex B.4.3 for more information.

This seems like it isn't a problem.
It would apply to network-wide keying only.
While I guess we could include multiple Link_Layer_Key with the same
key_id, and a different key_usage, that wasn't the intention.  I
guess one could use a different K1 and K2 with a different MIC length, but
have no idea why a network would want to mix MIC-32 and MIC-64.

I imagine that there performance or power tradeoffs to using the longer MIC
lengths, other than there are more check bytes?

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