On Thu, 2014-09-11 at 12:59 +0200, Ralph Holz wrote:
> Hi Kohei,
> 
> I think Stephen has rather expressed he would not want UTA to pick a
> backup cipher suite for TLS.
> 
> The purpose of the BCP is to give advice which cipher suite to
> configure. Your proposal would have us double the number of suites
> without a clear recommendation which one to use, which I'd like to
> avoid. Add to that the people who'd rather see a different one picked
> and we'd have more delay in publishing the RFC.
> 
> The fact that implementations of Camellia exist does not mean they are
> error-free. The cipher is in little use, too, so I doubt the
> implementations have seen a lot of scrutiny.

I doubt that. Camellia was even preferred to AES in browsers like chrome
and firefox for quite long time (that is no longer the case though).
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=430875
http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/6530/why-is-camellia-suddenly-so-widely-used

So there is no technical reason for not having camellia in a BCP.

regards,
Nikos


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