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   Aaron Toponce ⚛️:debian: (atoponce@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 03-Sep-2022 10:56:20 JST Aaron Toponce ⚛️:debian:

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   The second thing that stuck out at me was not necessarily OCB's performance, which we already knew was amazing, but how it also compared to ChaCha20-Poly1305 and AEGIS-128. And the presentation of that performance is on point.

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     Aaron Toponce ⚛️:debian: (atoponce@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 03-Sep-2022 10:56:21 JST Aaron Toponce ⚛️:debian:

     Just finished reading "The design and evolution of OCB", by Ted Krovetz and Phil Rogaway.

     Two things stuck out at me. First, this at the end:

     "The limited adoption of OCB
     exemplifies the often poisonous impact of patents on cryptographic practice."

     http://krovetz.net/csus/papers/ocb_joc.pdf (PDF)

     PublicLewdness repeated this.