Initial comments request: AEAD Encryption API

[Luke Howard]

On 09/11/2008, at 12:09 AM, Luke Howard wrote:

>>> Supporting multiple data chunks that are not block-size aligned is
>>> tricky . Is it actually needed?
>>
>> Without a spec, I can only guess that it would be, at least for the
>> associated data.
>
> I think it is fine to support, and in any case likely easier for the
> associated data (I'm not aware of any checksum mechanisms used with
> Kerberos that require the input data to be padded).

Except for DES-MAC.

-- Luke