On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 22:31 -0500, Mansour Moufid wrote: > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 9:37 PM, Steffen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 128bit are considered secure for the next several years. > > > > On that subject, the CSEC (Communications Security Establishment > Canada) publishes an updated summary of safe key cryptoperiods for > different algorithms [1] which I like to use a reference. > > Sincerely, > Mansour Moufid > > [1] http://www.cse-cst.gc.ca/services/crypto-services/crypto-algorithms-e.html
"The use of HMAC with SHA-1 shall be discontinued by the end of 2010." Sounds like there is work to do for the cryptsetup-luks developers... One last thing: Serpent doesn't seem to loose performance when used with larger keys, still 28MB/s with 256bit keys.
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