Folks,
The current draft mentions the following
o TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
o TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA
mandatory modes for DTLS in CAPWAP. There was
some discussion in the past about the
shortcomings of 3DES when used for DTLS in
CAPWAP. That would leave AES_128_CBC_SHA
as the leading candidate for use in DTLS for
CAPWAP.
I would propose adding AES-GCM (with GMAC) as
a mandatory mode. This is already supported in
IPSec (RFC 4106) and also in 802.1ae. This
algorithm provides significant performance
improvement in both hardware and software
implementations. (see http://eprint.iacr.org/2004/193.pdf)
When we move to 802.11n, the aggregation of traffic
from many 11n APs at the AC will imply that
we will need crypto algorithms with high
throughput. Supporting AES-GCM would help.
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