I'm in favor of supporting Mike's proposal due to simplicity.
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From: Roland Hedberg <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Cc: John Bradley <[email protected]>; Mike Jones <[email protected]>;
Jim Schaad <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 11:52 PM
Subject: Re: [jose] Issue #13 - use AES-GCM for Key Wrapping
Likewise, I also prefer Mike's proposal.
26 jun 2013 kl. 01:28 skrev John Bradley <[email protected]>:
> I prefer the approach Mike is proposing. It is overall simper and less
> restructuring.
>
> John B.
> On 2013-06-25, at 7:18 PM, Mike Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-jones-jose-aes-gcm-key-wrap-00 seems like a
>> substantially simpler approach
>> thanhttp://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-barnes-jose-key-wrapping-01. This is
>> evident by several metrics:
>> · Number of proposed changes: The Jones draft proposes no changes
>> to any of the current specs. It simply defines an encoding for GCM and adds
>> registry entries for it. Whereas the Barnes draft proposes a major
>> restructuring – listing 4 major changes in the introduction and 4 smaller
>> changes.
>> · Normative text size: The Jones GCM key wrap approach requires
>> only 7 normative sentences in 1/2 page of text. The Barnes draft has four
>> pages of normative text, along with an extensive introduction describing the
>> proposed complete restructuring of JWS and JWE.
>>
>> We don’t need to boil the ocean with a total redesign to enable AEAD key
>> wrapping. It can already easily be done with the current specs simply by
>> defining new algorithms. The approach taken in
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-jones-jose-aes-gcm-key-wrap-00 would work
>> for any AEAD algorithm.
>>
>> -- Mike
>>
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim
>> Schaad
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 9:53 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [jose] Issue #13 - use AES-GCM for Key Wrapping
>>
>> We now have two documents – one from Richard and one from Mike – which
>> provide the two different ways that have been proposed for doing key
>> wrapping with an AEAD algorithm.
>>
>> Please review the two documents and provide comments to the list.
>>
>> Jim
>>
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