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Add AES-GCM or ChaCha20Poly1305 #8

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paulmillr opened this issue Oct 21, 2021 · 0 comments

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paulmillr commented Oct 21, 2021 •

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aes is pretty bad. I know it's there for compatibility, but we should be also exposing GCM (+50-100 loc):

CBC Padding is easy to misuse. CTR or GCM should be preferred to it
GCM is better than CTR/CBC+HMAC (can be parallel; harder to misuse)
GCM has AAD
GCM is the only mode included in TLS v1.3. They've dropped all CTR/CBC ciphers!
If ETH non-wallet apps are using encryption, they should definitely be using GCM, not CTR/CBC

paulmillr changed the title ~~AES-GCM~~ Add AES-GCM or ChaCha20Poly1305

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