Re: Calling the question: implicit vs. explicit IV

[Ben Rogers <ben@Ascend.COM>]

Derrell Piper writes:
> I would like to see only an explicit IV used for ESP.

Is there a consensus on whether we will mandate the contents of an
explicit IV?  If the contents are implementation dependent, then this
doesn't seem to cause problems, but requiring them to be pseudo-random
seems to needlessly add overhead for compliant implementations.


ben

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