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

[Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com>]

Steve:

The authors have agreed to fix these problems.  This DISCUSS should be 
cleared quickly.

Russ

At 07:16 PM 4/11/2003 -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> In message <200304021953.OAA25577@ietf.org>, IESG Secretary writes:
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> >Last Call to expire on: 2003-1-30
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> >       Please return the full line with your position.
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> >                    Yes    No-Objection  Discuss *  Abstain
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> >Steve Bellovin      [   ]     [   ]       [ X ]      [   ]
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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)
>                 http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)