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 > > _______________________________________________ > dm-crypt mailing list > dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx > http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt > -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
