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Re: Diffie-Hellman (note by Hugo)

To: hughes@hughes.network.com (James P Hughes)
Subject: Re: Diffie-Hellman (note by Hugo)
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 1994 17:15:09 -0500
Cc: ipsec@ans.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 12 Dec 1994 15:16:15 CST." <9412122116.AA04506@hughes.network.com>
Reply-To: perry@imsi.com


James P Hughes says:
> 3. Over the lifetime of a standard (10 years or so), something that is
> marginal because it is processor intensive now, and will be not at all too
> expensive in the future. This is better than a standard that is just fine
> now and not enough (compared to feasable other algorithms) in the future.

I could not agree more. What seems slow now will seem trivial in five
years.

Perry

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