Re: des-die-die-die and RC4

Martin Rex <[email protected]> writes:

> I'm fine with deprecating 1DES and RC4-40/RC4-56,
> and believe the RC4-128 based enctype will still be needed for interop
> for a couple of years.

I am not recalling Microsoft releasing any RC4 variant that has a
40-bit key size, and RFC 4757 seems to specify a 56-bit variant, not a
40-bit variant.

> Actually, I would prefer the document to use a different quoting:
>
>    "export strength RC4"  or "40-bit RC4 (RC4_EXP)"
>
> rather than
>
>    "export strength" RC4

What semantic difference would you want to imply by making such a
change?  (I assume you mean changing the quoting in both the title and
the body.)
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