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Re: Critics blast Windows 2000's quiet use of DES instead of 3DES
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Fri May 19 10:24:55 2000
To: Paul Crowley <paul@cluefactory.org.uk>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 19 May 2000 10:08:23 -0400
In-Reply-To: Paul Crowley's message of "18 May 2000 21:37:22 +0100"
Message-ID: <sjm4s7uskdk.fsf@rcn.ihtfp.org>
Actually, the SAAG voted to drop DES from IPsec back in, oh, the
Minneapolis IETF in March '99 (IIRC). I think the problem is that
nobody has revved the IPsec docs.
-derek
Paul Crowley <paul@cluefactory.org.uk> writes:
> "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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