RE: p1619.1 document (tape), draft version 0.4

["Landon Noll" <lnoll@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> There are two ways that I see to solve the IV collision issue:
> 
> 1. Allow longer IVs: The GCM spec allows IVs of any size, we can just
>   do the same for 1619.1, and leave it to the application to 
> decide how
>   to set the IV and to what size. The application can then 
> set the IV to
>   include the vendor-ID and whatever else it wants to put there. (Does
>   the CCM spec allow long IVs?)
just allow any-size IV and put some appendix that 
> describe the multi-vendor IV issue and sketches the two 
> solutions above.

I strongly favor this option.

chongo (*) /\oo/\