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Re: [IPsec] [Cfrg] Beginning discussion on secure password-only authentication for IKEv2

"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu> Wed, 03 March 2010 00:11 UTC

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From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Dan Harkins <dharkins@lounge.org>
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Subject: Re: [IPsec] [Cfrg] Beginning discussion on secure password-only authentication for IKEv2
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On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 12:12:19 -0800 (PST)
"Dan Harkins" <dharkins@lounge.org> wrote:

> 
>   Hello,
> 
>   There are other criteria that should be evaluated in making a
> decision, such as how well does the solution fits into IKE(v2) and
> does it support "crypto agility".
> 
There are certainly many things that need to be considered, including
how, specifically, a particular algorithm can be embedded into an
engineered framework.  Any solution that requires a single,
fixed-for-all-time modulus and base is, to me, unacceptable.  (That was
the problem with SKIP, way back when.)

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