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Re: Critics blast Windows 2000's quiet use of DES instead of 3DES
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Crowley)
Fri May 19 09:25:38 2000
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: Paul Crowley <paul@cluefactory.org.uk>
Date: 18 May 2000 21:37:22 +0100
In-Reply-To: "L. Sassaman"'s message of "Wed, 17 May 2000 21:51:17 -0700 (PDT)"
Message-ID: <87u2fv61dp.fsf@hedonism.subnet.hedonism.cluefactory.org.uk>
"L. Sassaman" <rabbi@quickie.net> writes:
> > > Frankly, I can't understand why the IPsec protocol still allows DES.
> >
> > We are waiting for AES.
>
> So am I correct in assuming you are saying that DES will be disallowed as
> part of the IPsec protocol when AES is finalized?
>
> This would be good. I still think that DES should be dropped immediately,
> however.
I'm guessing that they have to have a MUST cipher, and they don't want
to change twice, so it makes sense to wait until September and then
make AES (or AES primary) the only MUST cipher.
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