A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the Kerberos Working Group of the IETF. Title : Deprecate DES support for Kerberos Author(s) : Love Hornquist Astrand Tom Yu Filename : draft-ietf-krb-wg-des-die-die-die-02.txt Pages : 6 Date : 2012-02-09 The Kerberos 5 network authentication protocol, originally specified in RFC1510, can use the Data Encryption Standard (DES) for encryption. Almost 30 years after first publishing DES, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) finally withdrew the standard in 2005, reflecting a long-established consensus that DES is insufficiently secure. By 2008, commercial hardware costing less than USD 15,000 could break DES keys in less than a day on average. DES is long past its sell-by date. Accordingly, this document updates RFC1964, RFC4120, and RFC4121 to deprecate the use of DES in Kerberos. Because RFC1510 (obsoleted by RFC4120) supports only DES, this document reclassifies RFC1510 as Historic. This document also deprecates the weak "export strength" RC4 enctype of RFC4757. A URL for this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-krb-wg-des-die-die-die-02.txt Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ This Internet-Draft can be retrieved at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-krb-wg-des-die-die-die-02.txt _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list I-D-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt