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authorPaul Kehrer <paul.l.kehrer@gmail.com>2015-02-13 09:06:48 -0600
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@@ -591,6 +591,18 @@ Interfaces used by the symmetric cipher modes described in
individual modes.
+.. class:: ModeWithAuthenticationTag
+
+ A cipher mode with an authentication tag.
+
+ .. attribute:: tag
+
+ :type: bytes
+
+ Exact requirements of the tag are described by the documentation of
+ individual modes.
+
+
.. _`described by Colin Percival`: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2009-06-11-cryptographic-right-answers.html
.. _`recommends a 96-bit IV length`: http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/BCM/documents/proposedmodes/gcm/gcm-spec.pdf