Symmetric encryption

[Pawel Shajdo]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 01:24:26PM +0200, Per Tunedal Casual wrote:
> In that case it's important to know how the session key for symmetric 
> encryption is derived from the passphrase. If hashing with SHA-1 i used 
> that will set the limit to 160 bits.
No. See RFC2440 section 3.6 for description
> 
> In that case AES192 would be appropriate - only 32 bits wasted :-). AES256 
> or TWOFISH would be ridiculous, wouldn't it?
> 
> Per Tunedal

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