[OTR-dev] AES Key and DH group sizes

Werner Dittmann Werner.Dittmann at t-online.de
Sun Aug 16 11:07:59 EDT 2009


Hmm, why this. Just recently I read some info on Bruce Schneiers
blog that AES-256 has a poor key distribution. AES-128 is good
enough for all practical reasons.

Regards,
Werner

chris-tuchs at hushmail.com schrieb:
> Recently I've been seeing recommendations to avoid AES-128, and DH
> group #5.  Will the next release of libotr be using aes256 and/or a
> larger DH group?  I have seen #14 from 
> http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3526.html recommended.
> 
> Chris
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