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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