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Re: [Cryptography] NSA and cryptanalysis
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jerry Leichter)
Sun Sep 1 17:36:01 2013
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From: Jerry Leichter <leichter@lrw.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130901141148.77fc587d@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2013 16:33:56 -0400
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Cc: "cryptography@metzdowd.com List" <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
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On Sep 1, 2013, at 2:11 PM, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Sep 2013 07:11:06 -0400 Jerry Leichter <leichter@lrw.com>
> wrote:
>> Meanwhile, just what evidence do we really have that AES is
>> secure?
>
> The fact that the USG likes using it, too.
We know they *say in public* that it's acceptable. But do we know what they *actually use*?
>
> That's also evidence for eliptic curve techniques btw.
Same problem.
-- Jerry
> Perry
> --
> Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com
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