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Re: Regarding DES/3DES

To: Dominique.Bastien@abl.ca
Subject: Re: Regarding DES/3DES
From: Paul Koning <pkoning@xedia.com>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 11:44:00 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: RuheenaR@future.futsoft.com, ipsec@lists.tislabs.com
References: <C5B7AD50B789D31191B400805F9F52CB1FC624@exchange1.abl.ca>
Sender: owner-ipsec@lists.tislabs.com

>>>>> "Dominique" == Dominique Bastien <Dominique.Bastien@abl.ca> writes:

 Dominique> I send you a text from The ESP Triple DES Transform draft
 Dominique> "draft-ietf-ipsec-ciph-des3-00.txt" ... A key that
 Dominique> is identical to a previous key MAY be rejected....

 Dominique> If you K1 and K2 are identical it's just like DES with K3.

You quoted an out of date document.  Use RFC 2451 instead.  It says
that K1 == K2 MUST be rejected, which is only reasonable...

     paul

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From: Dominique Bastien <Dominique.Bastien@abl.ca>

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