Re: CART before the HORSE

[Markku-Juhani Saarinen <mjos@xxxxxx>]

On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, David P. Kemp wrote:

> > If compatibility with pgp2.6, etc, is a MUST, then RSA is a MUST.  Is
> > this acceptable?  Have we already made a decision on RSA, or has the
> > IETF already pronounced (via the S/MIME group) a leaning on this?
>  
> The TLS group has decided that there is only one MUST algorithm,
> DSA/DH/3DES, despite the fact that nearly 100% of the installed base
> of SSL currently uses RSA/RC4.

  We have chosen the exactly same MUST algorithms in IETF-SecSh work
  (see draft-ietf-secsh-transport-02.txt).

- mj

Markku-Juhani O. Saarinen <mjos@xxxxxx>, SSH Communications Security Ltd