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

Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com> Tue, 21 January 2014 17:35 UTC

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

Thanks so much for your comments! -- Please find my reponses in-line...

On 01/21/2014 01:47 PM, Simon Perreault wrote:
> It said "DISCUSS" at the top, so I'll do just that...
> 
> Le 2014-01-21 11:20, Fernando Gont a écrit :
>> On 01/21/2014 12:52 PM, Stephen Farrell wrote:
>>> (1) Section 5: Why mention only MD5 and SHA1? Why not
>>> HMAC-SHA256?
>>
>> They are just examples. I guess we could add HMAC-SHA256, too. I have no
>> objections to that.
> 
> 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.

Stephen: Would juust removing MD5 address your DISCUSS?

Thanks,
-- 
Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
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