Re: W3C Encryption Support for DES, RC2, and RC4 Symmetric Encryptio n Algorithms

Just another link on that topic:

<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-encryption/2002Jan/0122.html>

Christian

--On Mittwoch, 19. Juni 2002 08:11 -0400 Tom Gindin <tgindin@us.ibm.com> 
wrote:

>       Don:
>
>       Not all the missing algorithms are weak ones.  The entire class of
> password-based encryption algorithms are not defined.  Admittedly, there's
> no reason to make them mandatory to support, nor to define everything in
> sight (I've catalogued 15 PKCS#5 or PKCS#12 variants using SHA-1 as their
> digest, before AES came out), but a few of them would probably help.  I
> would suggest pkcs-12-PBEWithSha1AndTripleDESCBC and
> pbeWithSHAAnd3-KeyTripleDES-CC (see PKCS#12 section 6.3) for a start.
>
>             Tom Gindin

Received on Wednesday, 19 June 2002 08:55:50 UTC