The Snowden revelations describe several methods by which NSA committed
kleptography, caused compliance by hardware makers and influenced standards.
Why has AES escaped general suspicion? Are we to believe that NIST tested,
selected, endorsed and promulgated an algorithm that was immune to
Ed Stone t...@synernet.com at Sunday, September 22, 2013, 3:05:06 PM:
Why has AES escaped general suspicion?
because it was not created by NIST, nor NSA nor any other US gov org. it was
created by the academia, namely two guys, daemen and rijmen (neither of them
are americans).
the
On 22/09/13 16:05 PM, Ed Stone wrote:
Why has AES escaped general suspicion? Are we to believe that NIST tested,
selected, endorsed and promulgated an algorithm that was immune to NSA's
toolset, without NSA participation and approval? NSA involvement in DES is
known, but we await
On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 7:05 AM, Ed Stone t...@synernet.com wrote:
There was some criticism from various parties, including from public-key
cryptography pioneers Martin Hellman and Whitfield Diffie,[2] citing a
shortened key length and the mysterious S-boxes as evidence of improper
2013/9/22 Tony Arcieri basc...@gmail.com
Furthermore, 3DES continues to remain a viable cipher.
I, personally, find that a most commendable and remarkable fact. To use DES
with longer keying (and more rounds) is, to this very day, a solid choice.
It makes one wonder why the longer keys weren't
