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Re: ASN.1 OID for TIGER/192

Derek Atkins <derek@ihtfp.com> Mon, 30 September 2002 17:31 UTC

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To: David Shaw <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>
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From: Derek Atkins <derek@ihtfp.com>
Subject: Re: ASN.1 OID for TIGER/192
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David Shaw <dshaw@jabberwocky.com> writes:

> I'm not for or against using TIGER in OpenPGP, but my feeling is that
> if we are going to include TIGER, then we should do it intentionally,
> with all due care taken.

At some level, too many ciphers can spoil the security-system...  Not
that I'm saying TIGER is insecure, but at some level you need to limit
the posibilities for real-world interoperation.

Also note that reserving a number for TIGER but _not_ putting it into
the standard is different than actually calling TIGER a required cipher.

> David

-derek

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       Derek Atkins
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