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Wow. When was it written? OCB3 is almost 8 years old. Wonder why it wasn't used.
by bjoli 8y ago
Wow. When was it written? OCB3 is almost 8 years old. Wonder why it wasn't used.
- NikkiA 8y agoIt was written in 2005, thus changing all the code to use OCB3 may be an unreasonable amount of breaking things that work.
- bjoli 8y agoI don't know why they wrote it themselves, but if they don't want to use third party code, implementing OCB is faaaaaaaar simpler than implementing GCM or just about any other AEAD. But I suspect ChaCha20 would be a better fit since a stream cipher is a good fit for streaming audio.