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

Tom Yu <[email protected]>
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Simo Sorce <[email protected]> writes:

> I am for narrowing the scope to DES and getting this standard out ASAP.
> It has been bounced enough, and adding more discussion to deprecate
> other algorithms would only delay it, further.
>
> Meanwhile DES is really insecure these days and we ought to deprecate it
> officially so that all vendors wake up and start moving off of it for
> real.

RC4-HMAC-EXP is just as insecure as DES (both DES and RC4-HMAC-EXP use
56-bit keys), which is some of the motivation for wanting to do both.
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