FYI: AES patch

[Vergonet, Henk]

Preferences should be determined by:
- Algorithm security
- Patent restrictions
- Encription & decription speed

But I agree with Werner:
It's likely the NSA have already found a backdoor in the
algorithm, this is probably why the NIST has selected it ;).

Henk




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From: L. Sassaman [mailto:rabbi@quickie.net]
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 11:34 PM
To: Werner Koch
Cc: Vergonet, Henk; 'gnupg-users@gnupg.org'; Roussou, Ronald
Subject: Re: FYI: AES patch


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On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Werner Koch wrote:

> Anyway, it is only useful for symmetric-only encryption becuase
> there are yet no Rijndael preferences.

Actually, there are "AES" prefs, no?

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L. Sassaman

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