Re: AES or Triple DES?

From: Douglas A. Gwyn (DAGwyn_at_null.net)
Date: 06/21/03 

Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 23:37:16 -0400

fungus wrote:
> I just have a slightly warmer and a bit fuzzier
> feeling about AES 256 than AES 128, what with
> AES being so new and all...

But note that really good cryptanalytic attacks
typically don't scale exponentially with the key
size. Don't be fooled by the properties of the
dumb brute-force key-search attack.