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Re: draft-gaonkar-radext-erp-attrs-03



There is a desire to use NIST-approved key-wrap
algorithms for wrapping keys, and those algorithms are inappropriate for
general-purpose data encryption.

I'm not sure why this is a problem.   The encrypted attribute
container can include an algorithm field, so that it would be possible to encrypt one bag of attributes (not keys) with one algorithm, while using
a keywrap algorithm for another bag (which represent keys).

A (perhaps silly) question:

* Are general encryption algorithms suitable for use in encrypting keys? The Diameter EAP application has always assumed that they were. * Is there a pointer to a the limitations of keywrap algorithms?

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