[gnutls-devel] cipher suites

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos]

On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Stefan Bühler <stbuehler at lighttpd.net> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'd like to ask whether there are good reasons why many valid
> combinations of (key exchange, cipher, mac) are not supported, although
> they theoretically should work.
> For example CAMELLIA-CBC ciphers should work with EC key exchanges too,
> and also support other MACs too, for example:
> TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CAMELLIA_256_CBC_SHA384

Hello Stefan,
 Do you mean the ciphersuites in rfc6367? There is no particular
reason except that they have not been added yet (the problem with
several ciphersuites is that they are added in many unrelated
documents). It is now in my todo list.

regards,
Nikos