COSE WG,
After feedback about document scope and dis-interest in GMAC from JOSE WG I
have reduced the draft, referenced below, to just AES-GMAC in just the COSE
registry. I also added some explanation that the security strengths being
registered are in parity with existing AES-GCM for AEAD.

Due to the simplicity of this document I am requesting WG adoption now,
expecting that any feedback will be editorial rather than technical. I
understand that there are technical caveats to using nonce-based MAC such
as this but I believe that these are currently explained in the document
and it's up to individual uses to determine whether any specific
algorithm(s) are appropriate for their situation. There may be some benefit
in explaining in-document the rationale for GMAC in the first place is its
speed and likely hardware acceleration for high-rate and high-volume
authentication.

Thanks for comments,
Brian S.

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From: <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Subject: New Version Notification for draft-sipos-cose-gmac-00.txt
To: Brian Sipos <[email protected]>


A new version of Internet-Draft draft-sipos-cose-gmac-00.txt has been
successfully submitted by Brian Sipos and posted to the
IETF repository.

Name:     draft-sipos-cose-gmac
Revision: 00
Title:    AES-GMAC for COSE
Date:     2025-01-23
Group:    Individual Submission
Pages:    7
URL:      https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-sipos-cose-gmac-00.txt
Status:   https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-sipos-cose-gmac/
HTML:     https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-sipos-cose-gmac-00.html
HTMLized: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-sipos-cose-gmac


Abstract:

   This document registers COSE algorithm code points for using the
   Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) in Galois/Counter Mode (GCM) to
   generate a Message Authentication Code (AES-GMAC).  The security
   strength provided by these registrations is identical to existing
   COSE registrations for AES-GCM authenticated encryption.



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