Technical Summary
This document defines a means to negotiate the use of
encrypt-then-MAC instead of the existing MAC-then-encrypt one.
WRT the existing mechanism, there are a number of identified
vulnerabilities (see the references in the draft).
Working Group Summary:
This draft has been kicking around for a number of years and was
adopted and progressed fairly quickly. There were really just two
debates 1) how to do the negotiation (see sec 2.1 of the draft), and
2) whether this applied to both stream and block ciphers (ended up
applying to just block).
Document Quality
There's a test server up and running. There's also a number of known
implementations.
Personnel
Stephen Farrell is the responsible AD. Sean Turner is the shepherd.
IANA Note
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