On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 19:49, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:40:13 -0400 > Ted Unangst wrote: > >> Seconded. Was going to ask myself. >> >> > I would have thought AES-128 was more obsolete than blowfish? Speed? >> > >> >> ? How can the current standard be obsolete? > > Blowfish is strong. I'm sure I read advice to move to AES-256 where > possible. > > I don't disagree with using AES-128 as default on a possibly busy mail > server. I was just wondering why the word obsolete was used and if it > was simply because twofish and AES are faster.
I don't think anyone recommends using a 64-bit block cipher anymore. That's just a bad idea, even if emails are probably small.
