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Date:      Mon, 27 Jul 2015 23:18:40 -0500
From:      Jim Thompson <jim@netgate.com>
To:        John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: remove IPsec SKIPJACK support...
Message-ID:  <5E419103-3111-4ADC-A49F-B703BBBC9C5F@netgate.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150728034157.GO78154@funkthat.com>
References:  <20150728005730.GL78154@funkthat.com> <1DB60250-D362-4115-92F6-E27B7A5897C3@netgate.com> <20150728034157.GO78154@funkthat.com>

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> On Jul 27, 2015, at 10:41 PM, John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> wrote:
> 
> Jim Thompson wrote this message on Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 20:24 -0500:
>>> On Jul 27, 2015, at 7:57 PM, John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I would like to remove it from HEAD immediately as I don't see a use
>>> for it.  Some time ago I proposed removing Skipjack from the OCF in 12, but personally, now that I think about how long 12 is, we deprecate these sooner rather than later.
>> 
>> Are we also going to comply with RFC 7321?
>> 
>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7321
> 
> Looks like the only thing we need to change to comply w/ RFC7321 is
> to remove DES support (note to those that don't read closely, DES,
> not 3DES aka triple-DES), and I am fine removing DES support sooner
> rather than later...

The RFC 7321 requires it.  I’m willing to do the work, but I don’t want it to bikeshed.

Jim




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