At 01:44 09/09/2000 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:
Not incorrect, but 2**256 possible keys gets you into age-of-the-universe territory for cracking.
Well yes, but better safe than sorry.. you never know when the next breakthrough might come that makes anything under 256bits "weak." Not too likely I know, but doesn't hurt to keep that in mind.
I'm not aware of one. IDEA's "non-commercial" definitions have gotten fuzzier over the years, and it's patented in lots of places. Avoid Misty. Several of the AES candidates had policies of "it's patented now but if we're the AES winner you can all use it for free", which means you won't really know licensing issues until NIST picks a winner.
Ah.. I'll just have to keep digging myself.. maybe I'll put together a page of my own for this purpose. It's aggravating having to dig all over the place for this kind of info. What's the deal with Misty? ....signature.... PGP Key ID: 0xCCC57FD7 PGP Key Fingerprint: 446B 7718 B219 9F1E 43DD 8E4A 6BE9 D739 CCC5 7FD7 Available from ldap://certserver.pgp.com