[Old-standards] Re: [newtrk] List of Old Standards to be retired

[Robert Moskowitz]

At 05:53 PM 12/16/2004, William Allen Simpson wrote:


>  RFC1828       IP Authentication using Keyed MD5
>  RFC1829       The ESP DES-CBC Transform
>
>Now *THESE* were historic when written!  Due to US government pressure,
>it took years (and big plenary protests) for them to be published! 
>Especially without the 40-bit export restrictions!

The attack against these was presented at the Danvers IETF.

I had requested that they go to historic (along with 1827) once the 2401 
series of IPsec RFCs were published.  The request fell through the bit mask.