On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 10:29 PM, Martin Thomson <martin.thom...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 16 November 2015 at 19:52, Eric Rescorla <e...@rtfm.com> wrote:
> >> I have to ask why the continued insistence on calling the thing that
> >> forms part of the nonce an "IV".  I find it to be misleading.
> >
> >
> > This is the historical terminology that TLS has used.
>
> It was actually accurate when we were using CBC modes, but now it's
> just confusing.
>

It wasn't accurate in TLS 1.1 or later.

-Ekr
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