On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 9:50 PM, Mike StJohns <mstjohns@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> FYI. IDEAS as an IETF acronym has been taken since about 1989 or so. It stood for Internet Design Engineering and Analysis Series which was a fairly short lived document series that preceded the Internet Drafts process. This led to at least one internet routing company noting in its collateral that it implemented IDEA 9.
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> Mike
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> FWIW. I agree with John about the obnoxiousness of "ideas@xxxxxxxx" as a mailing list name.
IDEA
is also the name of the cipher originally used in PGP which might not be an issue only I seem to recall it was broken with a meet in the middle attack so it is probably tainted.