On Tue, 2015-01-27 at 19:40 +0100, Niels Möller wrote:
> Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > To revive this discussion, it seems that there is a proposal to add OCB in 
> > TLS.
> > https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-zauner-tls-aes-ocb-00
> 
> I guess we need to get into release mode soon (I'll send another message
> to try to sort out loose ends), but it might be possible to to ocb. I've
> had a quick look at RFC7253. According to wikipedia
> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCB_mode), that is "OCB2", is that the
> relevant version?
> 
> Has the ietf discussion clarified the patent issues?
> 
> I'm going to mail fsf lawyers about the patent license
> (http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/ocb/license1.pdf), I suspect they're
> not compatible with the LGPL.

It is that one:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7253

Let me know if you get some reply from FSF. In that case I'd recommend
against standardizing OCB in the IETF TLS WG.

regards,
Nikos


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