The IESG has approved the following document: - 'DES and IDEA Cipher Suites for Transport Layer Security (TLS) ' <draft-ietf-tls-des-idea-02.txt> as an Informational RFC This document is the product of the Transport Layer Security Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Tim Polk and Pasi Eronen. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tls-des-idea-02.txt Technical Summary TLS specification versions 1.0 (RFC 2246) and 1.1 (RFC 4346) included cipher suites based on DES (Data Encryption Standard) and IDEA (International Data Encryption Algorithm) algorithms. DES (when used in single-DES mode) and IDEA are no longer recommended for general use in TLS, and have been removed from TLS 1.2 main specification (RFC 5246). This document specifies these cipher suites for completeness, and discusses reasons why their use is no longer recommended. Working Group Summary This document review was non-controversial. The longest discussion was on the use of SHOULD and MUST in an informational document. Document Quality This document deprecates ciphers, removed from TLS 1.2, that are no longer considered appropriate for general use. There is general agreement in the security community that this is the right thing to do. Personnel Joe Salowey is the Document Shepherd, and Tim Polk is the Responsible Area Director. RFC Editor Note In section 7.1, please make the following substitution: OLD: [TLS12] Dierks, T. and E. Rescorla, "The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.2", RFC 5246, July 2008. NEW: [TLS12] Dierks, T. and E. Rescorla, "The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.2", RFC 5246, August 2008. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
