Back To The Future
You would think that an important document such as a Brexit Trade Deal would have the lastest usage of standards and the best practice, but if we turn to Page 921, we see some text which could have been created in the 1990s [here]:
So let’s ask a few questions …
Why do you think references to outdated systems has been included in the agreement?
This looks like it’s a standard copy-and-paste, and with little understanding of the technical details involved. The text is full of acronyms, and it perhaps needs more of a layperson's explanation to define the requirements. I think there should have been, at least, a reference to up-to-date standards such as those related to the NIST-defined FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) standards. In encryption, we generally move on and support old methods by deprecating them, and so the usage of Netscape Communicator and Mozilla Mail should have been deprecated years ago.
