On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 10:43:10 -0400, Bruce Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>You might wonder why we don't support DES (which is supported by the >hardware accelerators). I might. In fact it was my first question when I received the annoucement in my email. :-) Thanks for the information! Mark > AES was created as a new standard in 2000 >because DES had become more susceptible to cracking by today's >high-speed processors. In fact, DES was recently de-certified by the >Dept of Commerce as a US government option in favor of AES (even TDES, >triple DES, is discouraged). We decided not to put our effort into >supporting a fading standard. > >You can read about this at > http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/05-9945-DES-Withdrawl.pdf > >-- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
