On 04/02/2013 08:35 AM, Niels Möller wrote:

>>> Maybe one could also have a default autoincrementing nonce?
>>
>> If you do that please don't make it the default. There are several cases
>> in DTLS where the nonce isn't simply incrementing (e.g. when receiving
>> packets out-of-order).
> 
> I was thinking of _init setting it to zero, and have _digest do post
> increment. So then you could chose between


Looks ok but I don't like that cycles are wasted in the case one doesn't
use it. They are not much but I wouldn't expect that from a low-level
library.

I think having an other interface to increment any kind of nonce/iv may
be more interesting.

regards,
Nikos
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