Re: Why is AES more secure than DES??

From: Bill Unruh (unruh_at_string.physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 04/30/03 

Date: 30 Apr 2003 01:19:12 GMT

"Yuen" <Yuen@123.com> writes:

]I encrypt a block of data 0xFFF times, the result:
]AES128 0.0200(seconds)
]AES256 0.0200(seconds)
]DES 0.4500 (seconds)

]AES is much faster, but why is AES more secure than DES??
]When cracking a message, faster decryption is easier to crack?? because one
]can guess more password per second.
]The cracking method is "guess all possible password"

But it has a password of 128 bits, not 56 bits. No speedup can
compensate for a 10^22 increase in the number of passwords to search
through.

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