> From: [email protected] [mailto:discuss- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Kent Borg > > Bruteforcing > 128-bits is impossible. Bruteforcing 256-bits is 128-bits times as > impossible.
Careful here. Someday, there might exist a perfect block cipher, but at present, all known block ciphers (including AES) suffer from the even-vs-odd permutation problem, which means, that a cipher with 128 bit key is only as strong as an ideal cipher with 64 bits. If you want 128 bit strength (BigO 2^128 operations to brute force attack), you have to use the 256 bit key. I don't have a reference I can point you to on the internet. I read this in Cryptography Engineering (Schneier, Ferguson, Kohno). _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
