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Re: TLS 1.0 "draft-ietf-tls-protocol-01.txt" Now Available

From: Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 08:06:00 -0800 (PST)
Message-Id: <199703071606.IAA18300@slack.lne.com>
To: libert@gradient.com (Tom Libert)
Cc: dpkemp@missi.ncsc.mil, ietf-tls@w3.org 
Tom Libert writes:
> 
> At 08:55 AM 3/7/97 -0500, David P. Kemp wrote:
> >  I noticed that the draft still contains references to ciphersuites
> >including the unpublished algorithms RC2 and RC4.
> 
> I believe RC2 is still a trade secret, but RC4 was leaked to the Cypherpunks
> list in September, '94.  The algorithm is described in Chapter 17 of Bruce
> Schneier's "Applied Cryptography", 2ed.


Why don't we add some Blowfish CipherSuites?
It's a published (and public domain!) algorithim.


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