Renaming AES to AES-128

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Mon Nov 29 21:01:28 CET 2010


On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:15, bernhard at intevation.de said:

> AES128 and AES-128 already exist as aliases for "AES".

Right, in one direction.

Libgcrypt happily accepts AES-128 as an alias for AES.  However if we
map the internal identifier back to a name we need to pich one and that
happens to be "AES" for 9 years now.  Changing this is an ABI break and
thus not justified.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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