[OTR-dev] AES Key and DH group sizes

Ian Goldberg ian at cypherpunks.ca
Mon Aug 17 10:58:58 EDT 2009


On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 12:20:30AM -0700, chris-tuchs at hushmail.com wrote:
> 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.

I know of no reason to believe that either AES-128 or DH group 5 should
be deprecated at this time.  Do you have a pointer to the
recommendations you've been seeing?

   - Ian



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