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Re: 3DES (was: ipsec vs. firewalls)

To: smb@research.att.com (Steve Bellovin)
Subject: Re: 3DES (was: ipsec vs. firewalls)
From: Dan McDonald <danmcd@Eng.Sun.Com>
Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 10:48:19 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: ipsec@tis.com
In-Reply-To: <199805081502.LAA06659@postal.research.att.com> from "Steve Bellovin" at May 8, 98 11:02:21 am
Sender: owner-ipsec@ex.tis.com

> A more interesting topic is whether or not 3DES should be mandatory-
> to-implement.  I suggest that it should be
<SNIP!>

I agree with all of your reasoning that I just snipped.

Lemme ease your fears with this open question to the list:

      Who all out there is implementing 3DES already?!?

I suspect the people answering "yes" will be > 75% of the IPsec vendors, and
if you look at it in terms of market share, I suspect the "yes" would cover >
90% of market share.

Dan

References:

3DES (was: ipsec vs. firewalls)

From: Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>

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