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Re: [Cfrg] Fwd: Hash-Based Key Derivation

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Tue, 25 October 2005 21:03 UTC

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At 11:51 AM -0700 10/25/05, David Wagner wrote:
>2.1.6: I'm not entirely certain about the requirement that "protocols
>SHOULD support multiple hashes"; perhaps that SHOULD should be a MAY.

All of the RFC2119esque SHOULDs and MUSTs in the document are wrong 
in that they are not about interoperability, but are instead about 
cryptographic goodness. The reference to RFC 2119 should be removed 
and all MAYs, SHOULDs, and MUSTs should be lowercased.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium

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