[noise] Thoughts on semi-deterministic encryption

Jonathan Moore moore at eds.org
Tue Aug 26 12:44:52 PDT 2014


On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Tony Arcieri <bascule at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you want a deterministic nonce, why not use a counter instead of SIV?
>

That would work well for session keys but not long term ones. For long term
keys I believe that avoiding counter is likely impossible. My particular
use case is write caps in a cryptographic capabilities system.
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