Re: What can one do against Keylogger Attacks?
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Date: 08/06/05
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Date: 5 Aug 2005 22:12:08 -0700
> Blowfish ... is not considered among the state-of-the-art
> ciphers.
True, although possibly misleading. "State of the art" is usually a
euphemism for "has no significant track record". Ciphers are about
trust and confidence as much as they are about the latest and greatest
mathematical innovations. Nobody would seriously suggest 3DES as a
state of the art cipher--it's got all the aesthetics of a Soviet-era
automobile--but the trust and confidence in 3DES is nothing short of
profound, given that after 25-plus years of cryptanalysis we've yet to
find any practical results.
My rule of thumb is I don't move a cipher over into the "I really like
it" until there's ten years of history to look back over. So pretty
much by definition, none of my "I really like it" ciphers are state of
the art.
3DES: 25+ years, still going strong.
Blowfish: 12 years, still going strong.
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