On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 10:17:31AM +0100, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote: > Thus, I'm sending an RFC for a high level SIV-CMAC interface with an > abstraction function set, which abstract on the cipher. The cipher is > then used for both CTR encryption and CMAC. > (Initially I tried abstracting over cipher and MAC, which caused a very > complex interface, such as functions with 13+ parameters). > > That abstraction seems to have a cost on safety as in _siv_s2v() > function I simulated the cipher context using an array. Is there a > better way to capture that on nettle?
Is there any feedback on this RFC? I'd be very interested in the AES-SIV-CMAC support in nettle+gnutls. It will be needed for authenticating NTP packets using the upcoming Network Time Security protocol [1], which I'd like to see supported in the chrony NTP client/server implementation. [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ntp-using-nts-for-ntp/ -- Miroslav Lichvar _______________________________________________ nettle-bugs mailing list nettle-bugs@lists.lysator.liu.se http://lists.lysator.liu.se/mailman/listinfo/nettle-bugs
