On Fri, 2009-07-31 10:21:06 -0600, Zooko O'Whielacronx <[email protected]> wrote: > Folks: > > I've already been investigating for a long time the possibility of > switching from AES-256 to XSalsa20 for future versions of Tahoe-LAFS. > Today's announcement that AES-256 is weaker than we previously thought > makes the issue more urgent. Here's a blog entry I just posted about > this (also appended): > > http://testgrid.allmydata.org:3567/uri/URI:DIR2-RO:j74uhg25nwdpjpacl6rkat2yhm:kav7ijeft5h7r7rxdp5bgtlt3viv32yabqajkrdykozia5544jqa/wiki.html
In case of fire, maybe it would be feasible to extend the a repair
with a writecap to do additional re-crypting?
Another question is: Will a switch be a real switch? Or just allow
an additional crypto alg?
MfG, JBG
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