Re: [perpass] NULL Cipher RFC 2410 to HISTORIC ???

Stephen Kent <kent@bbn.com> Mon, 09 December 2013 14:55 UTC

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Subject: Re: [perpass] NULL Cipher RFC 2410 to HISTORIC ???
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Phillip,
> On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Hannes Tschofenig 
> <hannes.tschofenig@gmx.net <mailto:hannes.tschofenig@gmx.net>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Stephen, Hi Nicholas,
>
>     it would be interesting (as a history lesson) if someone could
>     tell us why the group at that time decided to develop a NULL
>     encryption mechanism. Stephen Kent (co-author of RFC 2410) might
>     remember. I have no heard
>
>
> It was for testing
no, it was not. please see my response to Hannes.

Steve