NSA backdoors and Set Preferred Cipher
Filip M. Nowak
gnupg at oneiroi.net
Sat Sep 7 22:59:20 CEST 2013
Hello
On 09/07/2013 02:11 PM, Mike Acker wrote:
> a lot of information has been reported recently
> <http://www.propublica.org/article/the-nsas-secret-campaign-to-crack-undermine-internet-encryption>
> regarding NSA an back-door entries behind digital encryption
>
> attached are some notes I offered recently on the MINT forum
>
> i have altered my cipher preference list as follows
>
> TWOFISH CAST5 BLOWFISH 3DES AES AES192 AES256 CAMELLIA128 CAMELLIA192
> CAMELLIA256
>
> based on recent revelations we should probably not use any commercially
> offered cipher
Is CAMELLIA's pick as least preferred cipher - omitted/disregarded by
NIST (US) but certified by NESSIE (EU) and CRYPTREC (Japan) - is somehow
related to those revelations?
Regards,
Filip M. Nowak
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