MD5 proposal

----- Original Message -----
From: "Randy Bush" <randy at psg.com>
To: "Pierre Baume" <pierre at baume.org>
Cc: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk at critter.freebsd.dk>; "Andrei Robachevsky"
<andrei at ripe.net>; "Olafur Osvaldsson" <oli at isnic.is>; <db-wg at ripe.net>
Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 6:21 PM
Subject: Re: MD5 proposal


> >>>> My main concern here would be that basing the proposed method on an
> >>>> implementation (md5-crypt), which may change or may be mixed with
> >>>> some other implementation, rather than on the documented algorithm
> >>>> (md5 hash), which cannot, may cause confusion in the future.
> >> the way out of this would seem to be for someone to write an internet
> >> draft on salted md5 and process it through the ietf security area.
> > I'm looking into this. Any other volunteers/suggestions?
>
> keep it simple.  what is the minimal draft to accomplish what is
> needed?  do that.
>
> randy