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Re: so why is IETF stilling adding DES to protocols? (Re: It's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Fri Jun 25 16:20:27 1999
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 16:28:00 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
To: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
Cc: jis@mit.edu, rah@shipwright.com, dcsb@ai.mit.edu, cryptography@c2.net,
cypherpunks@cyberpass.net, mleech@nortel.ca
Adam Back wrote:
> > I presume that the TLS WG is planning to use DES to replace the RC4
> > 40 bit cipher that was used for export compliance.
>
> I saw no indication that this was the case, though this sounds better
> than just adding DES and leaving all the 40 bit ciphersuites intact
> which looks like what the current plan is by my reading.
There's no indication either way, since the new ciphersuites are a
standalone I-D, not a modification to TLS.
Cheers,
Ben.
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