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Mandatory Algorithm Changes?

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Subject: Mandatory Algorithm Changes?
From: Jon Callas <jon@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 09:42:20 -0800
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I almost cringe to suggest this, but I will.

Triple-DES is pretty much obsolete. Yesterday, I saw that NISTannounced they're moving to stronger hashes.

Does anyone object to changing the MUST cipher to AES (I'd pick 128)and MUST hash to SHA-256?

Jon

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