Re: Last ditch proposal for crypto suites

["Angelos D. Keromytis" <angelos@cs.columbia.edu>]

Yes!
-Angelos (having exhausted his Advil supplies for the day)

In message <OFFE7F83C3.72343742-ON85256C24.0077E42F-85256C24.0078B6BE@iris.com>
, Charlie_Kaufman@notesdev.ibm.com writes:
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>The strong and nearly unanimous reaction to this question this time leads
>me to make a more radical proposal:
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>I propose that we remove the text for a la carte negotiation from the IKEv2
>spec, and escrow it in a bombproof vault somewhere in case future
>generations want it, and replace it with the proposal from my last message
>for specifying suites only. If we ever need a la carte, we
>have a backwards compatible way to add it in, but in the meantime we won't
>specify it. And if we're lucky, no one will ever miss it.
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>          --Charlie
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>Opinions expressed may not even by mine by the time you read them, and
>certainly don't reflect those of any other entity (legal or otherwise).