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

Simon Josefsson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.krb-wg
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Nico Williams <[email protected]> writes:

> 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.

Removing the references to RC4-HMAC from the DES document seems simpler
to me.  RC4-HMAC is an informational document, and there is no IETF
standard that requires its use, therefor it seems unlikely that whatever
a new IETF standard says about it will modify deployments.  Especially
given Russ' comments about interop with Windows XP.

/Simon
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