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Re: Your DISCUSS on draft-ietf-secsh-newmodes-05



Bill:

I am not totally happy with this proposed text. It could be interpreted to mean an update to the newmodes document , but you really mean that a future specification is likely to require aes128-ctr for all SSH implementations.

Russ

At 03:57 PM 9/9/2005, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
My proposed edit is to extend the paragraph reading:

   The "aes128-ctr" method uses AES (the Advanced Encryption Standard,
   formerly Rijndael) with 128-bit keys [AES].  The block size is 16
   bytes.

with:

   At this time it appears likely that a future revision of this
   specification will promote aes128-ctr to be REQUIRED;
   implementation of this algorithm is very strongly encouraged.




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