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Re: new second mandatory IPsec cipher
> Of course, for us vendors of software implementations, the programmer's lazy
> answer is to implement all three of these and let someone else decide. This
> doesn't work for hardware vendors, and for users who want some level of
> coherent valid advice on what to use.
Those of us trying to build compact implementations in software (e.g.,
for the embedded market) also have issues with there being too many
different mandatory algorithms. DESX has an extreme advantage here as
it shares the same algorithm "core" with DES and 3DES.
However, while I'm wearing my "cryptographic protocol engineer" hat,
that in and of itself makes me nervous..
- Bill
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