[Cfrg] Fwd: [saag] [Sam Hartman] draft-harris-ssh-arcfour-fixes-02: informational or proposed?
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Subject: [Cfrg] Fwd: [saag] [Sam Hartman] draft-harris-ssh-arcfour-fixes-02: informational or proposed?
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FYI. Begin forwarded message: > From: Sam Hartman <hartmans-ietf@mit.edu> > Date: June 1, 2005 12:04:07 PM PDT > To: ietf-ssh@netbsd.org, saag@mit.edu > Subject: [saag] [Sam Hartman] draft-harris-ssh-arcfour-fixes-02: > informational or proposed? > Reply-To: ietf@ietf.org > > > > Hi. I believe the following request is of interest to secsh and saag. > > > From: Sam Hartman <hartmans-ietf@mmit.edu.cnri.reston.va.us> > Date: June 1, 2005 11:35:07 AM PDT > To: ietf@ietf.org > Cc: iesg@ietf.org > Subject: draft-harris-ssh-arcfour-fixes-02: informational or proposed? > > > > > Hi, folks. The IESG has received a last call comment recommending > that the new rc4 cipher for ssh be published as informational rather > than as a proposed standard because of weaknesses in rc4. It would be > inappropriate to make a decision based on one comment so I am > soliciting comments on this point. > > The argument in favor of publishing this document at proposed is that > the existing arcfour cipher is part of a standard and that many other > IETF protocols use rc4 in standards track documents. > > > Please submit comments to ietf@ietf.org or iesg@ietf.org on this issue > by 2005-06-28. > > Included below is a partial bibliography of RC4 attacks provided to > the IESG by the person making the original comment. > > > > S. Fluhrer, I. Mantin, & A. Shamir, "Weaknesses in the Key Scheduling > Algorithm of RC4", Proceedings of 8th Annual International Workshop > on Selected areas in Cryptography (SAC 2001), Toronto, ON, CA, > August 2001. > > J. D. Golic, "Linear Statistical Weakness of RC4 Key Generator", > Procedings of EuroCrypt 1997, Konstanz, DE, May 1997. > > S. Fluhrer & D. McGrew, "Statistical Analysis of the RC4 Key > Generator", Proceedings of 7th International Workshop on Fast > Software Encryption (FSE 2000), New York, NY, US, April 2000. > > S. Mister & S.E. Tavares, "Cryptanalysis of RC4-like Ciphers", > Proceedings of 5th Annual International Workshop on Selected > Areas in Cryptography (SAC 1998), Kingston, ON, CA, August 1998. > > L. Knudsen, W. Meier, B. Preneel, V. Rijmen, & S. Verdoolaege, > "Analysis Method for RC4", Proceedings of AsiaCrypt 1998. > > R. Wash, "Lecture Notes on Stream Ciphers and RC4", unpublished, > Case Western Reserve University, OH, US > http://acm.cwru.edu/files/2002%20Spring/talks/latex_samp2_4_09_02.pdf > > S. Paul & B. Preneel, "Analysis of Non-fortuitous Predictive States > of the RC4 Key Generator", Proceedings of 4th International Conference > on Cryptology in India (IndoCrypt 2003), New Delhi, IN, December 2003. > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@ietf.org > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > > > > _______________________________________________ > saag mailing list > saag@mit.edu > https://jis.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/saag _______________________________________________ Cfrg mailing list Cfrg@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/cfrg
- [Cfrg] Fwd: [saag] [Sam Hartman] draft-harris-ssh… David A. McGrew
- Re: [Cfrg] Fwd: [saag] [Sam Hartman] draft-harris… Greg Rose
- RE: [Cfrg] Fwd: [saag] [Sam Hartman]draft-harris-… Blumenthal, Uri
- RE: [Cfrg] Fwd: [saag] [Sam Hartman]draft-harris-… Peter Gutmann