Maarten Bodewes

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Authenticated Encryption should check for tag length

This issue was identified at the next link http://stackoverflow.com/q/38293211/589259 It seems to me that the idea to use secure defaults set to the maximum authentication tag size (16 bytes, the...

Authenticated Encryption should check for tag length

16 bytes is the only sensible default which is mostly backwards compatible with the current 16 byte authentication tag generated during GCM encryption, and setting no default would break backwards...

Decode CBOR to primitive data types

This seems to have turned into a question about a use case that is explicitly not on topic (conversion to JSON), it might be prudent to close the issue otherwise...

Documentation issue: load_pkcs1_openssl_der and load_pkcs1_openssl_pem

@sybrenstuvel Sorry for the late reply, flew under the radar for some time. ``` classmethod load_pkcs1_openssl_der(keyfile: bytes) → rsa.key.PublicKey Loads a SubjectPublicKeyInfo (SPKI) encoded public key [as specified in the...