Ilari:

> On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 09:33:13AM -0700, [email protected] wrote:
>> 
>> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts 
>> directories.
>> This draft is a work item of the CBOR Object Signing and Encryption WG of 
>> the IETF.
>> 
>>        Title           : CBOR Object Signing and Encryption (COSE): AES-CTR 
>> and AES-CBC
>>        Authors         : Russ Housley
>>                          Hannes Tschofenig
>>  Filename        : draft-ietf-cose-aes-ctr-and-cbc-00.txt
> 
> Some quick comments after a quick read:
> 
> 
> Like with AE modes (RFC 9052 section 5.4.), there needs to be check both
> encrypting and decrypting that protected headers are empty byte string,
> and exernal additioanl data is empty byte string (because there is no
> way to validate such data). However, I do not see the requirement
> anywhere.

Yes, this needs to be added.

> With CBC mode, the data must be authenticated before trying to decrypt,
> or there is an attack (CTR mode does not suffer from this). However, I
> do not find any text about order of authentication and CBC decryption
> (and presumably CTR decryption too, for consistency).

I think you are calling to an additional sentence in the security 
considerations.  Which attack are you thinking about?  Reference?

Russ

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