[Cryptography] On the Impending Crypto Monoculture

[Werner Koch]

On Sun,  3 Apr 2016 11:12, fw at deneb.enyo.de said:

> (Regardingo OCB, doesn't need periodic rekeying at intervals that are
> practically relevant?)

RFC-7253 suggests a re-keying after 2^48 blocks. I wonder who is going
to encrypt 4 Petabyte in one chunk to finds out that at the receiving
site the authentication did not validate due to a hardware introduced
bit flip.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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