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RE: Proposal for new DH Groups 6, 7, and 8
Doh!
My mistake. When I was looking for Group 5 I found it was not listed in
IKE, only groups 1-4 are
at least in the "Big book of IPSec RFCs", I found that in 2412.
Sorry about that.
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> From: Paul Koning[SMTP:pkoning@xedia.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 1:29 PM
> To: Joseph.Maclellan@entrust.com
> Cc: ipsec@lists.tislabs.com
> Subject: RE: Proposal for new DH Groups 6, 7, and 8
>
> >>>>> "Joe" == Joe MacLellan <Joseph.Maclellan@entrust.com> writes:
>
> Joe> The DH well-known primes are listed in Appendix E of RFC 2412
> Joe> (Oakley), not RFC 2409 (IKE). I don't think they should be
> Joe> going to Dan to include in the IKE doc, they should be added to
> Joe> 2412 with the rest.
>
> That seems odd, because 2412 is "Informational". Things that affect
> how a protocol works or how it interoperates should be in standards
> track specs, I would think.
>
> I suppose the notion of a protocol spec (which 2412 seems to be)
> marked "informational" is a bit odd in general.
>
> paul
>