Re: so why is IETF stilling adding DES to protocols? (Re: It's official... DES is History)

[EKR]

"William H. Geiger III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/25/99 
>    at 10:29 AM, "Jeffrey I. Schiller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Single DES, RC4-40, or any other weak crypto has no place in the IETF
> standards. I though these kind of issues were put to rest during the
> S/MIME debate. Now I see them rearing their ugly head again. If Netscape &
> Microsoft are allowed to control the standard process, it will not be long
> before there are no standards but their own.
To the extent that these issues were "put to rest during the S/MIME
debate" it was in favor of the approach used by TLS.

CMS specifies how to do RC2-40, but mandates support for
3DES, exactly as TLS does.

-Ekr

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[Eric Rescorla                                   [EMAIL PROTECTED]]