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RFC 1750 (Randomness Recommendations for Security, December 1994)
RFC 1969 (The PPP DES Encryption Protocol [DESE], June 1996)
RFC 1984 (IAB and IESG Statement on Cryptographic Technology and the Internet, August 1996)
RFC 2040 (The RC5, RC5-CBC, RC5-CBC-Pad, and RC5-CTS Algorithms, October 1996)
RFC 2104 (HMAC: Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication, February 1997)
RFC 2144 (The CAST-128 Encryption Algorithm. May 1997)
RFC 2268 (A Description of the RC2 Encryption Algorithm, March 1998)
RFC 2401 (Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol, November 1998)
RFC 2406 (IP Encapsulating Security Payload [ESP], November 1998)
RFC 2411 (IP Security Document Roadmap, November 1998)
RFC 2451 (The ESP CBC-Mode Cipher Algorithm, November 1998)
RFC 2612 (The CAST-256 Encryption Algorithm, June 1999)
RFC 2628 (Simple Cryptographic Program Interface [Crypto API], June 1999)
RFC 2984 (Use of the CAST-128 Encryption Algorithm in CMS, October 2000)
RFC 2994 (A Description of the MISTY1 Encryption Algorithm, November 2000)

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