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Re: ISAKMP/Oakley vs SKIP: The real status
> You are, of course, referring to IPv6, since that is the only place
> the word "mandatory" appeared in Jeff's decision?
>
> I too am unclear about the status of SKIP vs. ISAKMP/Oakley.
> Clarification would be nice.
Clarification may be found in the original announcement, by
continuing to read beyond the bullet list under "I would like to
see ..." to find "Proposed New Charter (with change bars)."
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Matt Crawford crawdad@fnal.gov Fermilab
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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 16:57:37 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Karl Fox <karl@ascend.com>
To: Charles Watt <watt@sware.com>
Cc: perry@piermont.com, kent@bbn.com, ipsec@TIS.COM
Subject: Re: Short keys * Options, combinations, and negotiations => simplicity
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Charles Watt writes:
> In all this flap I haven't heard any mention of Rivest's DESX
> (see www.rsa.com/rsalabs/cryptobytes/, Volume 2, Number 2 - Summer '96 issue).
> The only weakness that I have seen in the literature concerning DES comes
> from exhaustive key search. Rogaway and Kilian provide a convincing
> argument that DESX solves this problem, perhaps better than 3DES, with
> essentially the same computational costs as DES.
I, too, am intrigued by this. If someone wrote a draft for some form
of ESP-DESX, I'd implement it.
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