On Friday 25 March 2016 22:07:02 Yoav Nir wrote:
> > On 25 Mar 2016, at 8:16 PM, Yuhong Bao <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > I wonder if it would be possible to publish
> > draft-ietf-tls-56-bit-ciphersuites as Historic (in the sense of RFC
> > 6101). It would start with
> > https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tls-56-bit-ciphersuites-01 ,
> > but the ciphersuites 0x60 and 0x61 would be added also as they were
> > implemented in OpenSSL.
> > 
> > Yuhong Bao
> 
> Hi
> 
> It would be possible but I’m wondering some things:
> 
> 1. Are the original authors interested, or are there alternative
> authors willing to take this on?
> 
> 2. What is the point?  All of the ciphersuites in there have been
> deprecated by some diediedie document or another, and no sane
> document author (here or elsewhere) would include any of these 56-bit
> ciphers in any profile for TLS that is intended to provide security.
> So what is the benefit?

1. Showing why the code points are reserved.
2. Having official list of code points which must not be enabled (so 
   that scanners can be complete)

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Regards,
Hubert Kario
Senior Quality Engineer, QE BaseOS Security team
Web: www.cz.redhat.com
Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkyňova 99/71, 612 45, Brno, Czech Republic

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