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Re: ESP transform with RC5
At 06:42 PM 3/18/96 EST, smb@research.att.com wrote:
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>It's also worth noting that RC5 poses some interesting technical issues.
>For example, it is parameterized, and none of the key management mechanisms
>we are considering seem to support that. Possibly, the parameters could
>be encoded as part of the key -- but we're moving down a track in which
>keys are true-random numbers. Besides, it may be necessary to negotiate
>some of the parameters under certain circumstances -- some folks may only
>have 40-bit RC5 implementations available to them, for the usual obvious
>reasons.
Seems that an RC4 ESP would have a simliar need? Of course, I'd suspect
that only RSA would submit an RC4 ESP and they have already moved on to 5...
Robert Moskowitz
Chrysler Corporation
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