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

Tom Yu <[email protected]>
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Simon Josefsson <[email protected]> writes:

> 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.

The logic behind deprecating RC4-HMAC-EXP is that it is of comparable
weakness to DES, having the same effective key size.  If we are
deprecating DES, it makes sense to also deprecate similarly weak
ciphers.
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