Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-krb-wg-des-die-die-die-01.txt

"Henry B. Hotz" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.krb-wg
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On Feb 9, 2012, at 7:26 AM, Tom Yu wrote:

>> There should be a reference to RFC 4757 when ARCFOUR-HMAC is mentioned,
>> and the reference should use the name RC4-HMAC instead of ARCFOUR-HMAC
>> since that is what RFC 4757 calls it.
> 
> Implementations call it ARCFOUR-HMAC in various places for trademark
> reasons, as I recall.  (Though skimming RFC 4757 reminds me that we
> might also want to deprecate rc4-hmac-exp (24) -- "export strength"
> RC4 -- as weak.)  I'd be willing to skip that to get the document out
> sooner.  Do people have strong opinions about naming it RC4 versus
> ARCFOUR?

No strong opinion, but if forced to vote, I would vote for the RFC 4757 name.

Get rid of "export strength" crypto as long as it doesn't slow passage of this document.
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