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Re: AES suitable for protecting Top Secret information
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vin McLellan)
Wed Apr 14 13:09:01 2004
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Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 12:34:34 -0400
To: Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>, cryptography@metzdowd.com
From: Vin McLellan <vin@theworld.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040414124303.5366B7B44@berkshire.research.att.com>
I missed that announcement too -- but Wikipedia, the web-based Free
Encyclopedia, caught it! See Wikipedia on AES at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES
The Wikipedia module on AES Security has a link to the same NSA fact sheet
Steve mentioned.
I was surprised. I thought, as in so many other things, the NSA was going
to say one thing and do another.
Suerte,
_Vin
At 4/14/2004, Steve Bellovin wrote:
>I haven't seen this mentioned on the list, so I thought I'd toss it
>out. According to http://www.nstissc.gov/Assets/pdf/fact%20sheet.pdf ,
>AES is acceptable for protecting Top Secret data. Here's the crucial
>sentence:
>
> The design and strength of all key lengths of the AES algorithm
> (i.e., 128, 192 and 256) are sufficient to protect classified
> information up to the SECRET level. TOP SECRET information will
> require use of either the 192 or 256 key lengths.
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