Re: Resolving the newmodes algorithm list.

[Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams%sun.com@localhost>]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 05:32:54PM -0400, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
> Also, what do people think of boosting aes128-ctr to MANDATORY ?
> (note: this is a separate document.  as a practical matter,
> implementations would not be "forced" to implement aes128-ctr until
> they chose to claim they implemented newmodes).

I agree.  If two implementations support newmodes they should be able to
interop, and that means having at least one mode be required to
implement.

Nico
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