Re: a few questions about AES

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You're confusing the length of your key with the strength of your
cipher. Those two things are not the same. A cipher might have
enormously long keys, with incalculable numbers of combinations - and
yet be trivially breakable.
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i realise this. i'm just going by what i read which is the strength of the
cipher is dependant on how the key is generated, the complexity, and how
many keys there are. if that is a simplistic way of putting it, please by
all means correct me.

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It's like saying: "My car has four doors, therefore it will travel at
least 100 mph". The second part of that statement does not follow from
the first. Simiarly, cipher strength does not necessarly follow (at
all) from having long keys.
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wouldnt that fall under efficiency rather than strength?


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