[Ach] Camellia justification?

Aaron Zauner azet at azet.org
Tue Apr 22 18:55:15 CEST 2014


Hi Hanno,

Hanno Böck wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wanted to ask if there has been any discussion why most cipher suites
> in the bettercrypto docs contain camellia.
Yes, the last discussion can be found over here:
http://lists.cert.at/pipermail/ach/2014-April/thread.html#1164

> From what I know Camellia has no known weaknesses, but I'd generally
> consider it a good thing to trim down cipher suites. So I'd prefer
> disabling anything that's "very uncommon". Would also include others
> (SEED comes to my mind).
We explicitly exclude SEED.

> Are there any situations where Camellia ciphers are the only supported
> ciphers or are superior to all other supported ciphers?
> 
Not that I'm aware of.


Aaron

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