New optimized AES code (bug report)
Julius C. Duque
jcduque@cybercebu.com
Fri May 25 09:30:01 2001
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Fri, 19 May 2000, Julius C. Duque wrote:
>
> > Any chance of using this version instead in the next
> > release of gpg?
>
> You won't notice the speedup because in most setups the public key
> cryptography part consumes all the time. AES is already much faster
> than the other algorithms so that I consider that not to be an
> urgent task.
I just did some checks on the AES version that gpg uses, and the
newer versions of the AES. gpg uses version 2.3 of AES which
contains a bug. On version 2.4, the code implementors of AES said:
Changes from v2.3
-----------------
Fixed a small bug in CBC mode.
Version 3 of AES is now out.
Also, could the developers add Serpent?
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