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Re: [TLS] Deprecating RC4 (was: draft-ietf-tls-encrypt-then-mac)

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Mon, 14 April 2014 11:03 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Deprecating RC4 (was: draft-ietf-tls-encrypt-then-mac)
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I sent a mail to the SSH list. Right now it looks
to me like it might be better for TLS and SSH to
handle this separately, however each WG wants to
deal with it. If that changes and you're in the
middle of doing stuff on this, I'll yell.

Cheers,
S.

On 04/11/2014 07:50 PM, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> Andrei Popov has refreshed his draft on deprecating RC4:
> 
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-popov-tls-prohibiting-rc4-02
> 
> There was significant WG support for this draft previously and
> then the discussion migrated to UTA where it does not seem
> to be terminating.
> 
> The chairs would like to hear from WG members whether they
> support adoption of this draft in TLS. While this is not a formal
> call for adoption, if we get strong support we will immediately
> move for adoption, so now is a good time to raise any
> objections you have.
> 
> -Ekr
> 
> 
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