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Re: so why is IETF stilling adding DES to protocols?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bodo Moeller)
Mon Jun 28 17:18:26 1999
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 23:50:05 +0200 (CEST)
From: Bodo_Moeller@public.uni-hamburg.de (Bodo Moeller)
To: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Cc: <cryptography@c2.net>, <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
In-Reply-To: <199906260424.VAA28651@proxy3.ba.best.com>
"James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>:
> How very virtuous: How about we put 56 bit crypto in, but
> instead of the browser saying "secure document", the browser
> says "weakly secure document. Encryption weakened to meet
> the requirements of government eavesdroppers"?
I suggesting (following IBM policy as stated in the CDMF paper)
trying to avoid using the term "encryption" for 40-bit ciphers
and call it "data masking" instead.
