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Re: Export of Weak Crypto Rathole....



On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:

> If we have general concensus that draft-ietf-ipsec-ciph-cbc-01.doc
> (which includes 3DES) is ready, then I'm not opposed to sending it to
> the IESG along with everything else, since it will avoid needing to rip
> out a lot of references from the DOI.  However, now is not the right
> time to add new crypto algorithms, such as 112-bit 3DES, or 40 bit DES.
> So why don't we table this discussion for now?  We can take that up
> after we get the core drafts out.

I agree. Anyways, there are more important things to do. The general
framework has to be ready before we start to worry about Russian export
limitations. 

Helger
http://home.cyber.ee/helger




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