[3350] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: r.e. quality of IDEA...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Reid)
Wed Sep 23 12:06:47 1998
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 23:55:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: Steve Reid <sreid@alpha.sea-to-sky.net>
To: David Honig <honig@sprynet.com>
cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980922204955.008374e0@m7.sprynet.com>
On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, David Honig wrote:
> The NSA asked the NIST to request that AES ciphers
> be able to encrypt 2 blocks with 2 keys in the same
> time as 2 blocks with 1 key. Ie, ciphers you can search
> rapidly are mucho desirable from the perspective
> of the eye in the sky.
The AES bakeoff specifies a 256-bit key as a requirement.
Teacher: ..and in about 5 billion years the same will happen to our sun.
Student: What? You mean the sun will swell up and engulf the earth?!?
Teacher: Yes, in about 5 billion years.
Student: Whew! That's a relief. I though you said 5 _million_.
