After following the brief discussion this morning about Blowfish, Twofish,
Serpent, and AES, I've realized that I don't know nearly what I had hoped I
did when it came to encryption. Does anyone have a link (or a document
they can post on the web) that points to the basics of encryption? And I
don't mean like 'Encryption is when you take what you wrote (plaintext) and
enrypt it so that nobody can read it (ciphertext).' I'm looking for
something a little more advanced -- that would explain block sizes, CBC,
EBC, and their relative strengths and weaknesses.
And (what I'd really like to see) does anyone know of a complete rundown of
all the ciphers that are available in the kernel? The help was just enough
to whet my appetite -- and I'm really curious to see why AES is ... not
well liked.
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