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Re: Last ditch proposal for crypto suites
>>>>> "Uri" == Uri Blumenthal <uri@bell-labs.com> writes:
Uri> On Friday 30 August 2002 00:24, Radia Perlman - Boston Center
Uri> for Networking wrote:
>> >> In the IKEv2 spec., transforms may have attributes (Sec. 7.3.2
>> and >> Appendix A). I was wondering about how that would work
>> with >> suites in a proposal.
>>
>> All values of all attributes would be predefined in the definition
>> of the suite. So for instance, the suite wouldn't be "AES" with an
>> attribute of key size, but instead the suite would specity "AES
>> with 128 bit keys".
Uri> Can an explicitly specified attribute override what's predefined
Uri> in the suite? Yes, no, it depends?
NO! It has to be no, otherwise you're back doing a la carte.
paul