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From: Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] "re-encrypting" ?
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 18:59:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110814165928.GA23589@tansi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110814131208.GA2093@fancy-poultry.org>

On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 03:12:08PM +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote:
> On 14.08.2011, Arno Wagner wrote: 
> 
> > It is on some architectures. It is also less secure.
> 
> As far as I know, both Serpent and Twofish has shown to be more secure than 
> Rijndael. However, Rijndael was choosen as the new AES because of its overall
> qualities (speed on various architectures, simplicity..).
> 
> http://csrc.nist.gov/archive/aes/round2/comments/20000515-bschneier.pdf
> 
> Anyway, I doubt this is playing an important role since none of these algorithms
> has been broken yet.

Indeed. One argument is that AES will get more scrutiny, as it is
more critical for the world. Typically it should not matter though.

Arno


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  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-14 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-13 21:18 [dm-crypt] "re-encrypting" ? Steve Verniers
2011-08-13 23:35 ` wolfgang.aigner
2011-08-14  1:10   ` Steve Verniers
2011-08-14  7:00     ` Heinz Diehl
2011-08-14 17:57     ` Wolfgang Aigner
2011-08-14  8:05   ` Roscoe
2011-08-14  8:32 ` Arno Wagner
2011-08-14 10:32   ` Heinz Diehl
2011-08-14 12:22     ` Arno Wagner
2011-08-14 12:49       ` Kyle Rose
2011-08-14 13:12       ` Heinz Diehl
2011-08-14 16:59         ` Arno Wagner [this message]
2011-08-14 17:46       ` Wolfgang Aigner
2011-08-15  7:54         ` Arno Wagner
2011-08-15 13:00           ` Kyle Rose

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