On Nov 1, 2013, at 10:07 PM, Michael Richardson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Tero Kivinen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Fix PRF_AES128_CBC to PRF_AES128_XCBC and downgrade it from SHOULD+ to 
>> SHOULD.
> 
> this is the only one which I didn't understand.
> 

Which one? There's two parts there.

AES-XCBC was supposed to take the world over by storm from the HMAC 
constructions. Except it didn't - everybody still uses HMAC-SHA1, it's still 
considered secure, and those who don't use HMAC-SHA1, use GHASH. So we no 
longer expect this to become a MUST in the future, hence the removal of the "+".

Yoav


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