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

"Henry B. Hotz" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.krb-wg
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Feb 14, 2012, at 3:12 PM, Sam Hartman wrote:

>>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Yu <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>    Tom> 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.
> 
> 
> As a process point, I believe that once we conclude our discussion here
> about what if anything to say about RC4, we will not be slowed down
> regardless of whether we include RC4.  I think that coming to consensus
> to remove RC4 references is likely as difficult as coming to consensus
> to keep it.
> 
> 
> So, my opinion as someone familiar with IETF process is that we should
> do what is right: it will take about the same time either way.
> 
> --Sam

OK, sold!

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