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        RFC 1751:

        Title:      A Convention for Human-Readable 128-bit Keys
        Author:     D. McDonald
        Date:       December 1994
        Mailbox:    danmcd@itd.nrl.navy.mil
        Pages:      15
        Characters: 31,428
        Updates/Obsoletes:  none

        URL:        ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1751.txt


The Internet community has begun to address matters of security.
Recent standards, including version 2 of SNMP, have explicit
requirements for an authentication mechanism.  These require use of a
keyed message-digest algorithm, MD5, with a key size of 128-bits.  A
128-bit key, while sufficiently strong, is hard for most people to
read, remember, and type in.  This memo proposes a convention for use
with Internet applications and protocols using 128-bit cryptographic
keys.

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Joyce K. Reynolds
USC/Information Sciences Institute