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Re: your mail

To: Bruce Schneier <schneier@counterpane.com>
Subject: Re: your mail
From: Dennis Glatting <dennis.glatting@software-munitions.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 22:13:38 -0700 (PDT)
cc: jerome@psti.com, ipsec@lists.tislabs.com
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On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Bruce Schneier wrote:

> This still makes no sense to me.  There are so many things to
> worry about wrt an IPSec implementation, so many things that can
> compromise security if they are not done correctly, that making
> sure there is a backup to triple-DES seems like a collossal waste
> of time.  It's like putting a mile-high stake in the ground and
> hoping the enemy runs right into it, instead of trying to build a
> wall.
> 

I am having trouble believing 3DES is going to broken anytime soon,
but then I am not a cryptographer and up on current events. Therefore,
I believe that a back-up cipher will be caught in regular maintenance
cycles and the whole thing a non-issue, but I've been wrong many times
before. :)

I ask what is going on here folks? This whole 3DES thing seems like
FUD, which isn't typical IETF behaviour. What is it I don't know?

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