On Tue, 11 Mar 2014, Joe Touch wrote: > Why not just use the term "unauthenticated encryption", when that's > exactly what's happening?
There is such a thing as authenticated encryption[1], as in AES GCM for instance, and what we're doing here is not its opposite. Thus, I think calling this "unauthenticated encryption" would be a bad idea. Cheers, 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authenticated_encryption -- | .''`. ** Debian ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http://www.palfrader.org/ | `. `' Operating System | `- http://www.debian.org/ _______________________________________________ dane mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dane
