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Re: [Hipsec] RFC5201-bis: Stephen Farrell's DISCUSS questions

Rene Hummen <Rene.Hummen@comsys.rwth-aachen.de> Sat, 06 September 2014 07:25 UTC

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From: Rene Hummen <Rene.Hummen@comsys.rwth-aachen.de>
To: Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
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Subject: Re: [Hipsec] RFC5201-bis: Stephen Farrell's DISCUSS questions
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On 04 Sep 2014, at 15:56, Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org> wrote:

> On 09/04/2014 12:48 AM, Stephen Farrell wrote:
>> 
>> Hiya,
>> 
>> On 04/09/14 05:56, Tom Henderson wrote:
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> How could we move this issue forward?  Stephen, would you advocate
>>> putting in 2048-bit and 4096-bit groups (perhaps with values 11 and 12
>>> respectively)?
>> 
>> I would advocate putting in the 2048 bit group yes. I figure
>> you probably don't need the 4096 one on the basis that before
>> one would go there you'd want to switch to some form of ECC.
>> So I'd not argue to define a codepoint for the 4096 bit group
>> for now myself, but equally, I'd not argue against doing so.
> 
> I'm fine with that (adding the 2048 bit group).  I propose to add it as "value 11" in the list.  I'll wait a few days for concurrence or lazy consensus before making the change, however.

+1

René


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