Re: Resolving the newmodes algorithm list.

[pgut001%cs.auckland.ac.nz@localhost (Peter Gutmann)]

Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld%east.sun.com@localhost> writes:

>Also, what do people think of boosting aes128-ctr to MANDATORY ?

Given that AES-CTR's main feature is that it's building block for a variety of
confidentiality+integrity modes (rather than a mode in and of itself) and that
it's parallelisable (if you happen to be doing, say, Gbps link encryption in
hardware), what would be the benefit of this?

Peter.