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Re: Critics blast Windows 2000's quiet use of DES instead of 3DES
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Fri May 19 13:35:47 2000
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: Paul Crowley <paul@cluefactory.org.uk>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
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Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 14:18:43 -0400
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In message <87u2fv61dp.fsf@hedonism.subnet.hedonism.cluefactory.org.uk>, Paul C
rowley writes:
>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.
Correct.
--Steve Bellovin
