Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-krb-wg-des-die-die-die-02.txt

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Russ Allbery <[email protected]> wrote:
> Note that RC4-HMAC is the only non-DES enctype available if one needs
> interoperability with Windows XP systems, which is still an issue for a
> lot of sites.  By contrast, there's much less operational need for either
> DES or RC4-HMAC-EXP these days.
>
> Sites that move from DES to RC4-HMAC are almost certainly much better off,
> so I would be hesitant to give both of those enctypes the same status as
> long as Windows XP is still a significant going concern.

+1

But we could warn that we intend to deprecate RC4-HMAC next.

Nico
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