[Cryptography-dev] GCM tag truncation, backwards compatibility

[Glyph]

On Jun 30, 2014, at 11:29 AM, Paul Kehrer <paul.l.kehrer at gmail.com> wrote:

> If we entirely disable truncation we have a significant set of NIST vectors we can’t run tests against. It might be worth it though. I’ve never heard a good case for truncation outside of “well NIST allows it”.

NIST has allowed some other stuff too though, I seem to remember seeing their name in the news a little while back.

-g
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