Re: des-cbc cipher

[Derek Fawcus <dfawcus%cisco.com@localhost>]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 06:14:41PM -0800, Darren Moffat wrote:
> 
> >any IETF standards-track protocol is crucially important to me.
> >That alone justifies documenting how DES-CBC works, even if it is 
> >marked as deprecated, optional-to-implement, or what have you.
> >(And I don't care if those sorts of recommendations are made,
> >provided it is clearly documented in the RFC).
> 
> Given the reaction to this on the list I doubt you are going to get
> consensus - but I maybe wrong.  I suggest you log a personal submission
> that references the relevant sections from the core drafts, you could
> then ask if the secsh-wg is willing to take it on as a working group draft.

I'd be rather inclined to object to having des-cbc (or des-anything) in
the core specs,  if for no other reason than to reduce the size of the
documents.

I'd certainly have no objection to it being documented in an seperate
informational RFC.

DF