Subject: Authentication/Encryption Algorithms for draft-ietf-ospf-ospfv3-auth-00.txt

From: Mukesh Gupta <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 16:59:12 -0600

Hi All,

Section 5 in draft draft-ietf-ospf-ospfv3-auth-00.txt says MD5 as a MUST for authentication and DES as a MUST for encryption. This doesn't match the current IPsec specifications (section 5 of draft-ietf-ipsec-rfc2402bis-02.txt and draft-ietf-ipsec-esp-v3-04.txt). We could change it to match the IPsec specifications but that create a maintenence problem. We will always have to keep this document updated with IPsec documents.

So should we just say that the implementation should be conformant to ESP and AH RFCs instead of naming the algorithms.

regards
Mukesh