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README changes to AES-GCM comments

Open khrice opened this issue 7 years ago • 2 comments

Changed the comment to help with confusion around optional parameters for IE and Edge

khrice avatar Sep 11 '18 14:09 khrice

@khrice nice catch, you are absolutely right :-)

Ruffio avatar Sep 12 '18 07:09 Ruffio

It might also be good to mention that IE/Edge Legacy require that the IV be 12 bytes for AES_GCM; any other value results in failure. This is because these browsers all the Windows Crypto API which supports only a 96bit IV (as suggested by the NIST standard).

ericlaw1979 avatar Jun 12 '20 22:06 ericlaw1979