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pgpfan:seip [2024/10/10 15:27] – [Protection] Sounded editorial and was confusing. Create narrative arc. b.walzerpgpfan:seip [2024/10/10 15:37] (current) – [SEIP for TLS] Consistency. b.walzer
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 Up to this point we assumed a cipher with 128 bit blocks. The OpenPGP standard supports ciphers with 64 bit blocks. Use of a 64 bit cipher in a SEIP formatted message would result in the secret IV only being 64 bits long. So the strength of the modification detection would be reduced. It's not clear to me that SEIP with 64 bit blocks is something that anyone ever implemented and that such messages/files were ever generated. This is still an important point as a dependency on block size for modification detection strength is not something that anyone would expect. Up to this point we assumed a cipher with 128 bit blocks. The OpenPGP standard supports ciphers with 64 bit blocks. Use of a 64 bit cipher in a SEIP formatted message would result in the secret IV only being 64 bits long. So the strength of the modification detection would be reduced. It's not clear to me that SEIP with 64 bit blocks is something that anyone ever implemented and that such messages/files were ever generated. This is still an important point as a dependency on block size for modification detection strength is not something that anyone would expect.
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 +A bit of insight from this discussion... The damage amplification of CFB is helpful here but would not have been as helpful if "encrypt then MAC" had been used. So "MAC/hash then encrypt" is synergistic with damage amplification. The OCB mode seems to me to be an extreme version of this principle. It could be classed as a "XOR then encrypt" mode. There is no MAC/hash used as all, OCB simply XORs the plaintext together to create a checksum and then encrypts the whole message. It seems to rely on the superior damage amplification of the ECB (electronic code book) mode to make this effective.
  
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