Re: [Last-Call] Last Call: Moving single-DES and IDEA TLS ciphersuites to Historic

Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> Wed, 18 November 2020 00:31 UTC

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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 16:31:43 -0800
From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: [Last-Call] Last Call: Moving single-DES and IDEA TLS ciphersuites to Historic
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On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 07:16:08PM -0500, Keith Moore wrote:
> On 11/17/20 7:03 PM, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> 
> > Hi Keith,
> >
> > A few things I'll try to unpack here and get more input from you on...
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 02:47:49PM -0500, Keith Moore wrote:
> > When you say "deprecating old TLS ciphersuites" are you thinking
> > specifically the single-DES and IDEA ciphersuites of this action, or
> > extrapolating to a broader class of things?
> 
> oh, dear.  I think I replied to the wrong Last Call message.   I have no 
> objections whatsoever to deprecating 1DES and IDEA.
> 
> Let me go back and look and figure out which LC I was really concerned 
> about, and reply to _that_ message.    Hopefully that reply will make 
> more sense.
> 
> But you can safely disregard my message about this action.

Ah, thanks for the clarification.  I'll look for your response to the
intended thread!

-Ben