Re: des-die-die-die and RC4

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

> My read is that the rough consensus of the working group is that
> deprecating RC4 at this time is not desirable.
>
> I think whether to deprecate export grade RC4 is still an open issue.  I
> think that there are no objections at this point, although I'm not
> entirely sure of that.  In particular, I think Simon was OK with the
> latest proposal from Tom although it sounded like he might prefer to be
> silent on the entire issue.
>
> I'd really appreciate comments on whether people want to deprecate
> rc4-exp. I think we have a couple of yes's and several nervous
> not-quite-objections.  I think that's replacing a couple of yeses, two
> objections and several not-quite-objections from earlier in the week.

I'm fine with deprecating RC4-EXP and not RC4 if the security
considerations are modified to point at the security considerations of
RFC 4757 instead of saying that RC4 is secure.

/Simon
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