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Re: [Cryptography] AES-256- More NIST-y? paranoia

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Dillinger)
Thu Oct 3 09:43:23 2013

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Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 20:13:34 -0700
From: Ray Dillinger <bear@sonic.net>
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On 10/02/2013 02:13 PM, Brian Gladman wrote:

> The NIST specification only eliminated Rijndael options - none of the
> Rijndael options included in AES were changed in any way by NIST.

Leaving aside the question of whether anyone "weakened" it, is it
true that AES-256 provides comparable security to AES-128?

			Bear


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