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Re: Generic CBC-MAC specification
The I-O resolution draft currently references Applied Cryptography
for CBC-MACs. That was said to be inadequate and I'm merely trying
to address the criticism. If most people feel that Applied Cryptography
is enough then I'll just leave it as it is. And I guess the burden is
on those who think it isn't enough since this involves a change.
Speak up now.
Dan.
> I'm a bit confused why you feel we need a document to describe
> how to do generic CBC MAC's. Given that how you do DES MAC's and 3DES
> MAC's are relatively well understood and documented in books like
> Applied Cryptography, do we really need to have a document to describe
> this? Is there actually concern that 3DES MAC isn't well defined enough
> such that we can not unambiguously reference other standards or texts to
> define what we mean by this?
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