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RE: IPSEC WORKING GROUP LAST CALL

To: "adams@cisco.com" <adams@cisco.com>
Subject: RE: IPSEC WORKING GROUP LAST CALL
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 19:57:14 +0000
Cc: "'Theodore Y. Ts'o'" <tytso@MIT.EDU>, Daniel Harkins <dharkins@cisco.com>, "ipsec@tis.com" <ipsec@tis.com>
In-Reply-To: <01BD3D85.6B31C350.adams@cisco.com>
Sender: owner-ipsec@ex.tis.com

At 10:26 PM 2/19/98 -0800, Rob Adams wrote:
>We need a 40 bit DES description which defines how to weaken the key.
>And we need a transform number.

Right.  Bear in mind that one very good way to weaken the key -- IBM's
Commercial Data Masking Facility (they were too honest to call it encryption)
is patented, which means that we'd have to get an appropriate statement
from IBM before we could bless it.

Not that I really want to...

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RE: IPSEC WORKING GROUP LAST CALL

From: Rob Adams <adams@cisco.com>

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