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Wed, 14 Jul 1999 12:01:10 +0300 (EET DST)
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 12:01:06 +0300 (EET DST)
From: Markku-Juhani Saarinen <mjos@cc.jyu.fi>
To: Rodney Thayer <rodney@ssh.fi>
cc: ipsec@lists.tislabs.com
Subject: Re: new second mandatory IPsec cipher - updated choice list
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On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Rodney Thayer wrote:
> I think this is the list...
>
> -- CAST-128
> -- BLOWFISH
> -- IDEA
> -- TWOFISH
> -- MARS
> -- (other AES candidates, please feel free to contribute)
>
> Note there seems to be consensus that DESX is _NOT_ a choice,
> because if DES/3DES are going to fail, the same structural failure
> would probably apply to DESX. I assume the same logic applies to
> DES/SK.
Please note that IDEA is patented, and there seems to be some patents
covering parts of MARS, too. Also, the design of some AES candidates may
change during the on-going the AES selection process.
- mj
Markku-Juhani Saarinen <mjos@jyu.fi> University of Jyväskylä, Finland