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

[John C Klensin]

--On Thursday, 16 December, 2004 22:30 -0500 Robert Moskowitz
<rgm-ietf at htt-consult.com> wrote:

> 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.

Then these need the "bad"  designation, not just the "not really
interesting any more" one.  And that, presumably, requires a
"1828/1829 considered harmful" document, or at least a paragraph
and a place to put it.

   john