Dan McDonald wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 10:51:38AM -0700, UNIX admin wrote: > > <SNIP!> > >> The changes are in place. I'm about to reboot, and my link will drop in a >> few secs. But before the link drops, I'd like to know: >> >> which provides for better / stronger encryption: AES or 3DES? > > Use AES, it's faster, and at least as secure as 3DES using 128-bit keys.
3DES has an effective key length of 112 bit so even AES-128 is in theory stronger than AES. AES was created to replace DES & 3DES so it is the way forward, it is the algorithm that will get more cryptanalysis done on it going forward. -- Darren J Moffat
