Re: [LinkSec] 802.16 Wireless MAN security
Marcus:
> > Slide 59, slide 65, and slide 68 contradict each other. Two slides say DES
> > and the other says 3DES. I hope it is 3-DES!
>
>The way I read the slides, it looks like TEKs are transferred using
> 3-DES, but the traffic itself is protected with single DES. Yuck!
Thanks. I went through them too fast. I know of some banking systems that
used 3DES for key-encryption keys, and DES for transaction encryption, but
that have all been upgraded (or scheduled to be upgraded).
I think it would be a very bad idea to deploy a new network with DES today.
Russ