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From: Kyle McMartin <kyle@debian.org>
To: Pekka Pietikainen <pp@netppl.fi>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPsec: add support for Twofish and Serpent
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 13:38:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030815173831.GB3119@imladris.debian.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030814180857.GA4205@netppl.fi>

On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 09:08:57PM +0300, Pekka Pietikainen wrote:
> There's absolutely no need to add complexity unless there are some technical
> arguments for doing so, say compatibility with legacy implementations
> which justifies bothering with DES/3DES/MD5 although they're inferior to 
> AES and SHA1 in just about every aspect.
> 
There are simple technical arguments for doing so, SERPENT and Twofish
are both either as secure, or more secure than rijndael, as it stood with
the amount of cryptanalysis the three received as part of the AES
selection process. (Serpent, as it stood, was more secure, since it had
more rounds, and more proven sboxes).

Adding more *secure* algorithms does no harm.

Regards,
-- 
Kyle McMartin <kyle@debian.org>
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-08-15 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-14 16:48 [PATCH] IPsec: add support for Twofish and Serpent Kyle McMartin
2003-08-14 18:08 ` Pekka Pietikainen
2003-08-14 20:25   ` Pekka Savola
2003-08-15  2:12     ` David S. Miller
2003-08-15 17:42       ` Kyle McMartin
2003-08-15 17:34     ` Kyle McMartin
2003-08-15 17:38   ` Kyle McMartin [this message]

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