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Re: [TLS] call for consensus: changes to IANA registry rules for cipher suites

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Mon, 04 April 2016 14:30 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Dan Harkins <dharkins@lounge.org>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] call for consensus: changes to IANA registry rules for cipher suites
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> > Not always; ISO et al.
> 
>   That's why I said "basically"; it's a qualifier.

I know; I was trying to emphasize, not correct :).
 
>   But keep in mind what kind of stable, publicly available document needs to
> be published: a description not of the algorithm but of how that algorithm
> get crammed into the TLS exchange

 That is a good point.  But most offerings we have seen so far are about national bulk encryption ciphers and not, say, new key-exchange methods (GOST the only one so far?).  Of course that might change.

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