[76596] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: It's a Presidential Mandate, Feds use it. How come you are not
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Damien Miller)
Thu Jan 18 16:34:39 2007
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Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 08:25:08 +1100 (EST)
From: Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org>
To: Saqib Ali <docbook.xml@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Thornburg <jthorn@aei.mpg.de>, cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <addede3b0701180850o21e63a11q41211717dd9d58a3@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Saqib Ali wrote:
> Since when did AES-128 become "snake-oil crypto"? How come I missed
> that? Compusec uses AES-128 . And as far as I know AES is NOT
> "snake-oil crypto"
It is even easier to use a good cryptographic transform in a way that is
utterly insecure then it is to come up with a secure-looking-but-broken
transform. How does this company apply AES-128 to the task of encrypting
disk sectors? There are lots of ways to do it, many of them wrong.
-d
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