On Mon, 2021-03-29 at 19:32 +0200, Niels Möller wrote:
> Nicolas Mora <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > > The new feature also needs documentation, will you look into that once
> > > code, and in particular the interfaces, are solid?
> > > 
> > Definitely!
> > What do you think the documentation should look like? Should it be
> > near paragraph 7.2.1? Like
> > 
> > 7.2.1.1 AES Key Wrap
> 
> That's one possibility, but I think it would also be natural to put it
> somewhere under or close to "7.4. Authenticated encryption and
> associated data", even though there's no associated data. That section
> could perhaps be retitled to "Authenticated encryption" to generalize
> it?
> 
> Or possibly under "7.3 Cipher modes", if it's too different from the
> AEAD constructions.

FWIW NIST considers this a category on it's own under key management.

Simo.

-- 
Simo Sorce
RHEL Crypto Team
Red Hat, Inc




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