[OTR-dev] AES Key and DH group sizes

Werner Dittmann Werner.Dittmann at t-online.de
Sun Aug 16 11:42:52 EDT 2009


Forgot the link to the blog:

<http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/07/another_new_aes.html#comments>

Werner

Werner Dittmann schrieb:
> 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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