"Janusz A. Urbanowicz" wrote: > Jari Ruusu wrote/napisa³[a]/schrieb: > > "Janusz A. Urbanowicz" wrote: > > > What if tomorrow some cryptographer will publish cheap, practical attack > > > on AES? This is unlikely but possible. > > > > If that happens, loop-twofish is born. > > And all users are forced to repatch, recompile, reboot and repent. This is > broken. Algorithm-switch should be possible without such severe system > modification (yes, patching kernel and rebooting may be a problem on > RL productivity servers). [snip] > Oh, sure. And I have want to use, and have a license for IDEA[1]? Or > blowfish? Or CAST? I do not ask you to include these ciphers. I only say > that it is a very bad idea to hardcode one algorithm you personally think is > best. Nothing prevents you from using other cipher modules with loop-AES. Only the AES transfer is built-in and pre-registered. Regards, Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@xxxxxxxxxx> Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
