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

"Blake Ramsdell" <blake@brutesquadlabs.com> Sun, 15 June 2003 01:06 UTC

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From: Blake Ramsdell <blake@brutesquadlabs.com>
To: 'Paul Hoffman / IMC' <phoffman@imc.org>, ietf-smime@imc.org
Subject: RE: Making AES a SHOULD in draft-ietf-smime-rfc2633bis?
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 17:44:38 -0700
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ietf-smime@mail.imc.org 
> [mailto:owner-ietf-smime@mail.imc.org] On Behalf Of Paul Hoffman / IMC
> Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 10:51 AM
> To: ietf-smime@imc.org
> Subject: Making AES a SHOULD in draft-ietf-smime-rfc2633bis?
> 
> 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?

I wouldn't cry if we did this.  Does that help?

Blake