Making AES a SHOULD in draft-ietf-smime-rfc2633bis?

Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org> Sat, 14 June 2003 18:15 UTC

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Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 10:51:18 -0700
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From: Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>
Subject: Making AES a SHOULD in draft-ietf-smime-rfc2633bis?
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Greetings again. draft-ietf-smime-rfc2633bis is in WG last call, and 
I should have probably brought this up before, but...

Do we want to add AES as a SHOULD in section 2.7? We have the 
traditional TripleDES MUST and RC2-40 as SHOULD. That's looking 
backwards (some might say "very backwards" for RC2-40). It might be 
good to add a forwards-looking SHOULD, namely AES.

How do others feel about this?

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