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Re: ciphers published as IETF documents
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Dierks)
Sat Jun 28 15:21:25 1997
In-Reply-To: <199706281741.NAA07347@jekyll.piermont.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 11:38:17 -0700
To: perry@piermont.com
From: Tim Dierks <timd@consensus.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
At 1:41 PM -0400 6/28/97, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>Rodney Thayer writes:
>> There have also been documents published on what in the IETF is called
>> "ARCFOUR".
>
>"ARCFOUR" has been mentioned, but never published as an RFC. Perhaps
>someone should do it...
>
>Perry
Please examine draft-thayer-cipher-00.txt. It's my understanding that Jeff
Schiller and the IESG are considering how to deal with this.
Also, the motivating factor behind the RSA submission of RC2 was not public
knowledge of the algorithm or the fact that a draft had been published, but
the fact that the S/MIME WG was going to drop it as a cipher if RSA didn't
release it, and the deadline was July 1.
- Tim
Tim Dierks - timd@consensus.com - www.consensus.com
Software Haruspex - Consensus Development
Developer of SSL Plus: SSL 3.0 Integration Suite
