2048 or 4096 for new keys? aka defaults vs. Debian

Peter Lebbing peter at digitalbrains.com
Thu Oct 31 22:17:39 CET 2013


On 31/10/13 22:02, Hauke Laging wrote:
> But this http://eprint.iacr.org/2009/317 (mentioned by the German Wikipedia
>  article for AES) claims that AES-256 was down to 99.5 bits.

I just glanced over the abstract, but didn't you glance over the term "related
key"? I.e., not generally applicable.

HTH,

Peter.

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