Thanks for the feedback, all! This was exactly the sort of input I was hoping to solicit. The OCB example is a really good one.
I'm fine to drop this proposal. Cheers, Jared On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 8:58 AM Tom Ritter via governance < governance@lists.mozilla.org> wrote: > While I'm sympathetic to the goal; this has been tried and it did not work. > > OCB was licensed in a way made it free but that prevented military use: > https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/ocb/license.htm This had the effect > of nobody implementing or using it - despite it being a very nice > cryptographic mode. This would be one of those unintended side effects. > > -tom > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > governance@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance > _______________________________________________ governance mailing list governance@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
