Re: Evaluation: draft-ietf-ipsec-ciph-aes-cbc - The AES Cipher Algorithms and Their Use With IPsec to Proposed Standard

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>]

In message <200304021953.OAA25577@ietf.org>, IESG Secretary writes:
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In Section 2.5, we don't think we want to permit 
a variable number of rounds for AES -- NIST explicitly declined to do 
so because it interacts with the key schedule generation.

Beyond that, I don't see that 5.4.1 should exist at all.


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
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