On 10/22/12 8:32 PM, "Paul Hoffman" <[email protected]> wrote:

>On Oct 22, 2012, at 4:55 PM, David McGrew (mcgrew) <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>
>> One thing that deserves to be on the agenda is a discussion of the need
>>to
>> update the ESP and AH crypto requirements, which have not been updated
>> since 2007, and to provide guidance on how to use ESP and AH to achieve
>> security goals.   I have a draft proposing what that could look like,
>> draft-mcgrew-ipsec-me-esp-ah-reqts-00.   This is off-charter, but I
>> believe that it is something that many people would agree is worth
>>doing.
>
>You may be overstating that "many people" agree that it is worth doing,
>but it is certainly worth discussing.
>
>> Of course, comments on the detailed requirements are welcome as well.
>
>Your listing of TripleDES as "SHOULD NOT" without any cryptographic
>justification might raise some eyebrows.

The issue is that 3DES has a 64-bit block instead of a 128-bit block;
please see draft-irtf-cfrg-cipher-catalog-01 Section 2.2.3.   (In
retrospect, there should have been a citation in the draft.)

David

>
>--Paul Hoffman

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