Ilari,

For those of us who were not in Prague, is there some published reference
to this attack?  Or an accessible summary of it?

Thanks!

-derek

On Wed, November 15, 2023 4:54 pm, Ilari Liusvaara wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 09:29:34PM +0000, lgl island-resort.com wrote:
>>
>>
>> The reason I say Context Info Structure (definition pasted below)
>> anticipated this is because of the AlgorithmID data item (and
>> keyDataLength). If I understand correctly, it exactly is the solution
>> proposed.
>
> The proposed solution is to perform KDF step in AEAD layer.
>
>
>> If the COSE-HPKE draft made Context Info mandatory, we’d be done,
>> though there may be a better solution.
>
> Nope. E.g., -29 has mandatory Context Information Structure, but that
> does nothing to block this attack.
>
>
>
>
> -Ilari
>
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