All,

I was looking in the COSE algorithms registry [1] for any existing
allocations for GMAC uses but don't see any. My reason for looking was that
in some hardware-accelerated environments AES-GCM is faster than HMAC
processing, so a GMAC would also benefit from the acceleration.

I expect that a COSE use of AES-GMAC would look similar to the use in CMS
[2] except that COSE algorithms typically combine options like
authentication tag size into a single code point, so an initial thought
would be max-length tags like: AES-GMAC 128/128, AES-GMAC 192/128, AES-GMAC
256/128

 

Would there be WG interest in allocating GMAC algorithms in the near-term
time supporting max-length tags?

Thanks,

Brian S.

 

[1] https://www.iana.org/assignments/cose/cose.xhtml#algorithms

[2] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9044

 

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