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Incryptography,CWC Mode (Carter–Wegman +CTR mode) is anAEAD block cipher mode of operation that provides both encryption and built-in message integrity, similar to CCM and OCB modes. It combines the use of CTR mode with a 128-bit block cipher for encryption with an efficient polynomialCarter–Wegman MAC with a tag length of at most 128 bits and is designed byTadayoshi Kohno,John Viega andDoug Whiting.[1]
CWC mode was submitted toNIST[2] for standardization, but NIST opted for the similarGCM mode instead.[3]
Although GCM has weaknesses compared to CWC,[4] the GCM authors successfully argued for GCM.[5]
CWC allows the payload and associated data to be at most 232 - 1 blocks or nearly 550 GB.[1]
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