On Tue, 2015-01-27 at 19:58 +0100, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:

> > 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.

In the case it is not compatible with LGPL.

About the release... Since you added the fat, would it include AESNI
+PCLMUL? If yes that would reduce significantly the assembly shipped in
gnutls (only the padlock functions would remain).

regards,
Nikos


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