Question regarding GCM/block alignment

[Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov]

Hello,

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 23:05, dbaryshkov at gmail.com said:
>
>> Should I add buffering of non-full blocks (by the cost of additional
>
> This is a long standing open question.  Until known there has been no
> real requirement for this.  Buffering should be put on top of the
> existing functions (probably by using a new flag for gcry_cipher_open).

Ack.

>
> However, I think it is more important to stabilize the current API with
> all the changes we did for 1.6 and work towards a release of 1.6.
> Adding a few feature can be done later.

Do you plan to merge AEAD support (GCM/CCM/whatever) before 1.6?
Or we better postpone those modes till next release?

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With best wishes
Dmitry