On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 9:17 PM, Niels Möller <[email protected]> wrote:
> As I wrote, I'm working with poly1305. One question: The _digest
> function will update the nonce value, so that by default one gets a
> nonce sequence of 0, 1, 2, .... In the code I'm working with
> (contributed by Nikos), this increment is done in a big-endian fashion,
> just like increments for CTR mode.
> Is this going to be the common way to generate nonces for poly1305?

There is no common way as poly1305-aes isn't used in any standard
(that I know) yet.

There is: draft-agl-tls-chacha20poly1305-03, but it uses a very
different construction than the poly1305-aes.

regards,
Nikos
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