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Re: CipherSuites for IETF-Algorithm-Compliant document

From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@apollo.hp.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 15:10:49 -0500
Message-Id: <199612192010.PAA02636@thunk.orchard.medford.ma.us>
To: dpkemp@missi.ncsc.mil (David P. Kemp)
Cc: ietf-tls@w3.org
There is at least one published description of an algorithm which
interoperates with RC4; see the 2nd edition of Schneier's Applied
Cryptography.  I suspect that this may be "good enough" for RFC2026's
purposes.

The first edition is already cited as [SCH] in the bibliography
(though there's a formatting glitch which makes both it and [TCP] hard
to spot).

RC2 is more problematic, but does anyone actually use it?  Deleting it
might make sense if nobody actually uses it..

					- Bill
Received on Thursday, 19 December 1996 15:10:56 UTC

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