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Re: IPSEC WORKING GROUP LAST CALL

To: "Marcus Leech" <Marcus.Leech.mleech@nt.com>
Subject: Re: IPSEC WORKING GROUP LAST CALL
From: Daniel Harkins <dharkins@cisco.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 00:36:20 -0800
Cc: ipsec@tis.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 20 Feb 1998 20:12:49 +0100." <34EDD5B1.591719A8@nortel.ca>
Sender: owner-ipsec@ex.tis.com

> Daniel Harkins wrote:
> >   You're right, this is about "engineering". What is your non-political
> > opposition to standardization on Blowfish? It's free, it's (pretty) fast,
> > and it supports 448-bit keys if you're really hung up on key length (and
> > it appears you are).
> >
> Just in case that's a serious proposal:
> 
> It's ugly, it's largely analysis free.
                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  Yes, it was a serious proposal and I guess this is a reason to hold off, 
although beauty is in the eye of the coder. 

  Thanks for providing a technical point to this embarassing thread. I
withdraw my proposal.

  Dan.

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From: "Marcus Leech" <Marcus.Leech.mleech@nt.com>

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