-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 04 October 2001 21:53, Janusz A. Urbanowicz wrote: <snip> > > Is there really no other cipher option than DES? It's broken, you > > know. FreeSWAN is deliberately explcuding it, even though it's part > > of the standard. I wouldn't support it in new projects. > > I wouldn't dare to call DES broken. It is the most researched > algorithm we have, with the only weakness of key size (which is cured > by using 3DES). <snip> Exactly. DES's functionality has been broken by EFF's DEScracker. It isn't secure anymore. It is broken. 3DES isn't though. But you were talking of DES. Marc - -- Nie wird so viel gelogen wie vor der Wahl, während des Kriegs und nach der Jagd -- Otto von Bismarck -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7vM8X3oWD+L2/6DgRAvX6AKCTBehMfnb81+FY2WuA/ncgUU3MSgCgiGgE c8RQG9Zy6ESAav3Mv7IGizo= =X8K7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
