Re: des-cbc cipher

[Damien Miller <djm%mindrot.org@localhost>]

On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, RJ Atkinson wrote:

>         Kindly put the shoe on the other foot for a moment.
> What problem is solved by omitting the DES-CBC information 
> from the drafts ?  Are we saving bytes on a disk or what ?

What benefit is obtained from enshrining a known insecure transform
in the protocol?

-d

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