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Re: AH-MD5

To: perry@imsi.com, hugo@watson.ibm.com
Subject: Re: AH-MD5
From: "Housley, Russ" <rhousley@spyrus.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 95 13:00:16
Cc: IPSEC@ans.net
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Hugo said: "Still my cryptographic feelings are inclined to prepend+append 
but then the extra computation -even if quite insignificant- is harder to 
justify."

Well, I think that it is easy to justify.  Given the tiny amount of 
processing that we are discussing, it is far better to error on the safe 
side of the decision.  Let's just adopt prepend+data+append and move on.

Russ

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