CDR: RE: Musings on AES and DES

[Lucky Green]

John wrote:
> NIST has stated that the maximum endorsement will be to use
> AES for non-classified government information. So the question
> will remain of what is better than AES, or to put it another way,
> what is not good enough about AES for its use on classified
> information.

A more likely explanation of the NSA withholding endorsement of AES for use
with classified traffic is that doing so would dejustify the continued
existence of the code-making groups at NSA.

--Lucky Green <shamrock at cypherpunks.to>

  "Anytime you decrypt... its against the law".
   Jack Valenti, President, Motion Picture Association of America in
   a sworn deposition, 2000-06-06