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Re: [saag] Additions to RFC 3631?

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Mon, 21 May 2012 10:15 UTC

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Subject: Re: [saag] Additions to RFC 3631?
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On 05/21/2012 11:07 AM, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Yaron Sheffer <yaronf.ietf@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> And a short section on crypto-grade random number generation. I would
>> be glad to contribute it.
> 
> I believe that is more for an update of RFC 1750 than RFC 3631.
> 
> RFC 1750 is in need for an update with modern recommendations.  It
> should point to at least AES, Yarrow and the approved NIST RNGs.  The
> references of weak ciphers (DES, MD4, etc) should be removed.  Given
> that RFC 1750 is often cited by crypto protocol specifications, it would
> be nice if RFC 1750 could be (more) useful to implementers.

RFC 1750 was obsoleted by RFC 4086 in 2005. That's still a while
back so maybe improvements to that could be made,

Cheers,
S

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