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Is the ICV the same thing as the authtag? (rhetorical question, I looked at the code: yes it is) I've never seen the authtag/mac for aes-gcm referred to as ICV
by matthewaveryusa 4y ago
Is the ICV the same thing as the authtag? (rhetorical question, I looked at the code: yes it is) I've never seen the authtag/mac for aes-gcm referred to as ICV -- any context on why it's used here? is it a more general term cryptographers use, or is it the new way (or old way) to refer to authtags ?
wrt IV reuse the protocol doc says the NICs use a picosecond timestamp counter -- do NICs really have picosecond resolution clocks, or is it nanoseconds + monotonically increasing counter within the nanosecond?
- sophacles 4y agoIPsec calls the tag an ICV too. (see RFC 7296 ss 3.3 for example) It's short for Integrity Check Value. edit: an even better RFC for this question is 4106 which is about aes-gcm in ESP, it calls the tag an ICV also.