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Re: Stephen Farrell's Discuss on draft-ietf-6man-stable-privacy-addresses-16: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

Doug Barton <dougb@dougbarton.us> Wed, 05 February 2014 04:17 UTC

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On 01/21/2014 08:47 AM, Simon Perreault wrote:
> On all the platforms I know there would be no practical reason to pick
> MD5. Something better is always available and just as easy to use. I
> don't want new code to use MD5 "because it was given as an example in
> the RFC". Removing MD5 from the examples list would make me happy.

+1

Also +1 on including HMAC-SHA1 and ideally HMAC-SHA256 as explicit examples.

(This is all assuming the draft continues to advance. I continue to 
think it's at best a solution looking for a problem, and at worst a 
needless change that continues the harmful trend of fiddling with the 
spec long after we should have stopped.)

Doug

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