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Re: Slicing and Dicing in new-esp

To: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@apollo.hp.com>
Subject: Re: Slicing and Dicing in new-esp
From: "Angelos D. Keromytis" <angelos@dsl.cis.upenn.edu>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 00:44:33 +0000
cc: ipsec@tis.com
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In message <199704102118.RAA06537@thunk.ch.apollo.hp.com>, Bill Sommerfeld
writ
es:
>Now, there are certain, obvious to a non-cryptographer, problems with
>passing the exact same blob to both algorithms.  I believe that the
>right thing to do here is to specify that new-ESP is responsible for
>dividing the blob into two pieces and feeding one to the encryption
>algorithm and the other into the integrity algorithm; the individual
>algorithms are resposible for any relevant algorithmic-specific key
>processing.

I fully agree.
-Angelos

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