But we should explain that in the introduction :) Sent from my iPhone
> On Nov 3, 2015, at 10:57, Yoav Nir <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On 3 Nov 2015, at 9:42 AM, Tero Kivinen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> John Mattsson writes: >>> - BTW, What does it mean that an algorithm like ENCR_RC5 is not >>> listed, does that mean “MAY”, “MUST NOT”, or “totally unspecified”? >> >> It means this document does not specify whether they should be used or >> not, i.e. MAY. > > To elaborate a bit: there are a whole bunch of algorithms in each category, > and we didn’t want to grab the entire table from IANA. > > The document lists the MUSTs and SHOULDs. That is the purpose of the > document. Other algorithms are mentioned only if they’re ones that have > previously been widely implemented and widely deployed, and that we believe > it is time for them to no longer be so widely deployed. That is why DES, > 3DES, MD5 and Group 2 get special mention. RC5 has never been very popular in > IPSec, and the same can be said for Blowfish, Tiger, KPDK_MD5, and > brainpoolP512r1. So we don’t mention those. > > Yoav > > _______________________________________________ > IPsec mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipsec _______________________________________________ IPsec mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipsec
