Does Block Size Affect Security

From: Xizor (nope@nope.com)
Date: 03/30/03


From: "Xizor" <nope@nope.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 20:16:56 -0500

I'm new to encryption and right now I'm using a C++ wrapper for Rijndael. My
question is this: does the block size affect the security? Is there an
optimal relationship between the size of the block and the size of the key?
Thanks in advance.



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