[Cryptography] From Nicaragua to Snowden - why no national standards should be considered in cryptosec

[Donald Eastlake]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 9:18 PM, Stephen Farrell
<stephen.farrell at cs.tcd.ie> wrote:
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> ...
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> I think likely the best we can do is to annotate cipher code points
> (e.g. in IANA registries) as being "desirable" or "other" and to
> discourage everyone from implementing "other." If we can come up
> with an acceptable but disparaging term for "other" that'd be great
> ("crap" has been suggested but might not be effective).

What's wrong with the typical standards term "deprecated"?

Thanks,
Donald
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