[RFC 2/2] FIXME: initial implementation of GCM
Werner Koch
wk at gnupg.org
Mon Aug 5 16:01:30 CEST 2013
On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 14:28, dbaryshkov at gmail.com said:
> I will probably add a note that to be fully compatible with NIST
> recommendations,
> one have to generate IV according to the specification.
If the standard requires a certain way to generate an IV we need to make
sure that it is done in this way. If there is an application which
can't work with such a high-level approach we may revisit this and
decide whether to add a low-level API for this case.
Shalom-Salam,
Werner
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