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by throw0101d 731 days ago
Given that OCB (appears to be?) is more computationally efficient than GCM, is there any reason why OCB shouldn't be favoured nowadays given there are no IP issues?
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I like OCB and dislike GCM, but GCM is very, very fast and is the de facto standard AEAD, and the runner-up is Chapoly. OCB would be a quirky choice, and maybe trickier to get in every ecosystem you develop in (I ended up writing my own back in the early days of Golang).