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Re: Open Source Embedded SSL - Export Questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thor Lancelot Simon)
Wed Nov 26 20:39:28 2003
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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 20:27:08 -0500
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
To: J Harper <jsec@peersec.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 02:56:40PM -0800, J Harper wrote:
> Great feedback, let me elaborate. I realize that AES is implemented in
> hardware for many platforms as well. I'll mention a bit more about our
> cryptography architecture below. Do you know why AES is so popular in
> embedded? ARC4 is faster in software and extremely small code size. It
RC4 is extremely weak for some applications. A block cipher is greatly
preferable.
There isn't _quite_ a speed/strength tradeoff in cryptography, but any
time you choose algorithms based purely on speed, you'd better get really,
really suspicious about the strength of what you're producing.
Thor
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