Subject: Re: AES-256 vs AES-128

From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 18:55:56 -0400

In message <[email-masked]>, John Wilkinson writes:
>
>Ian Grigg wrote:
>
>>I think it's pretty clear that both AES versions
>>should stay in OpenPGP.  Until the market reaches
>>some sort of consensus that an algorithm is dead,
>>discussions on the relative strengths argument would
>>appear not to be directly relevant to OpenPGP's
>>standardisation efforts?
>>
>Agreed. As long as the MUST have cipher is 3DES, we have no problems. 
>When and if (hopefully never) OpenPGP chooses to deprecate 3DES in favor 
>of some other cipher, be prepared for a battle...
>
>
>
AD hat on...  I would be unhappy if AES -- pick your key size -- were a 
SHOULD instead of a MUST.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
		http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)