Re: Why is AES more secure than DES??

From: Paul Crowley (paul_at_JUNKCATCHER.ciphergoth.org)
Date: 04/30/03 

Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 14:26:50 GMT

"Yuen" <Yuen@123.com> writes:
> But in the case of a brute force attack which proceeds through all possible
> combinations of legal characters in sequence, a longer key doesn't make much
> difference.
> What I mean is "not" guess the key, but like this:
>
> "mypassword123" --> hash data (key), as input key --> encryption (with
> plaintext) -> ciphertext

Did you read the paper I pointed you to which addresses this concern?

http://www.counterpane.com/low-entropy.html 

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