On Thursday 03 July 2003 11:56 pm, Toad wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 11:49:59PM -0500, Tom Kaitchuck wrote:
> > On Thursday 03 July 2003 08:51 pm, Toad wrote:
> > > http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0209.html#1
> > >
> > > This seems to suggest that AES with a 256 bit key can be cracked in
> > > 2^100 effort. It is unclear what effect this would have on 128 bit AES,
> > > however it seems prudent to use 256 bits if we can. Implementation
> > > details? Any opposition?
> >
> > Hey, while we're on the subject I think the data store should default to
> > 64bit (Blowfish). I find that gives better performance than 128 bit. And
> > sense it does not prevent a node operator form knowing the contents of
> > their store, because they could just turn it off... And there is the same
> > protection legally speaking whether is is 64 or 128 bit, we might as well
> > use the faster system.
>
> We don't encrypt the store and haven't done since we got rid of the
> monolithic datastore in October.

In that case why is there still an option for it in the config file?
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