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Re: IPSEC WORKING GROUP LAST CALL
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 21:14:05 -0800
From: Daniel Harkins <dharkins@cisco.com>
A 2key 3DES is 112bit while a 3key 3DES is 168 (although I never did
like those numbers since 3 DES keys are 192 bits not 168 bits).
Err, right. I should know better than to send e-mail out after midnight
without first checking my multiplcation first. Sorry about that....
(The only lame excuse I can give is that my brain was fried after a full
day of dealing with ipsec/ca-talk issues at Needham today...)
And draft-ietf-ipsec-ciph-3des-00.txt is definately a 3key 3DES. So I
think Ramesh is talking about a 2key 3DES. But there is no draft
which defines such a transform so the request to add a magic number
for it is premature.
Agreed.
As far as the other drafts are concerned, I'd like to see 3DES get
added to the pile but given the size of the pile already I wouldn't have
a problem with waiting on the rest.
Noted. Anybody else who wants to express an opinion on this, now's the
time to speak up.
- Ted
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