RE: Last ditch proposal for crypto suites

[Jan Vilhuber <vilhuber@cisco.com>]

Much as I'd like to specify RSA only suites, I don't think reality
will let us get away with this. We'll need pre-shared key suites as
well.

Make the RSA suites MUST and the pre-shared key suites MAY.

jan


On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote:

>
> > I think the original argument against suites came from observing how
> > many SSL had.
>
> I think that that was largely the result of TLS being specified at a time
> when RSA was still encumbered and bona-fide MAC functions had not been
> developed.
>
> We are talking about 3 MUST suites and 2 MAY suites maximum. IKE1 had 9
> encryption ciphers alone.
>
>
> 		Phill
>

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