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I am curious why CBC was chosen over GCM?

• rfk 8y ago
  For no reason other than "legacy reasons" - much of the client-side crypto code in the current Firefox Sync is inherited from an earlier system that predates widespread acceptance of GCM as a best practice. If we designed it from scratch today it would almost certainly be using GCM instead.
  • leetbulb 8y ago
    Makes sense. Thank you for your answer!