Re: [Full-Disclosure] RE: Rijndael

From: Ben Laurie (ben@algroup.co.uk)
Date: 04/20/03

  • Next message: Paul Schmehl: "Re: [Full-Disclosure] RE: FEEDBACK: Testing Microsoft and the DMCA" 
    From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
To: Timmah <devon@lithiumnode.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 21:07:50 +0100

    Timmah wrote:

    >>>>Yes, it was, Belgian or Indian, I think. I didn't mention it becuse I
    >>>>couldn't remember how to spell it ;)
    >>>>
    >>>>But since it's now the US's AES standard, who knows how strong it is...
    >>>
    >>>The designers are Belgian (Flemish). Not to denigrate them or their work,
    >>>I believe that it was not the strongest of the five AES finalists, and
    >>>this was demonstrated during the last few months before selection. You
    >>>can interpret that however you want.
    >>>
    >>
    >>There were other factors in the selection process, not just cryptographic
    >>strength. And some weaknesses have been fixed later.
    >
    >
    > I maintain that the AES selection committee didn't weight factors sanely.
    > Overall security of algorithms in different modes of operation should have
    > been a deal-breaking factor and it was instead sacrificed for speed and
    > other considerations. That is just a fact.

    IIRC, a key criterion was key scheduling speed. Forgive me for being
    suspicious, but that sounds to me like "we'd like brute force to be
    efficient, please".

    Cheers,

    Ben. 

    -- 
http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html       http://www.thebunker.net/
"There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he
doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff
_______________________________________________
Full-Disclosure - We believe in it.
Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
  • Next message: Paul Schmehl: "Re: [Full-Disclosure] RE: FEEDBACK: Testing Microsoft and the DMCA"
    • Quantcast