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Hello, |
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Am Donnerstag, 6. März 2008 schrieb Peter Meier: |
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> > I just wanted to jump in and say that I'm personally a fan of Serpent. I |
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> > like to use something that's a little less popular, but still open. It |
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> > is similar in strength (IMHO), but there will be more people trying to |
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> > break AES than Serpent. For example, I've read the XSL attack that can |
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> > weaken AES is too complex when used on Serpent -- it would be more |
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> > expensive than a brute force attack. |
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> in my opinion quite a bad assumption. the more a crypto algorithm is |
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> open, the more people it test, the more it can be assumed that it is |
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> safe against current known attacks. |
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IMHO even worse: You will need not only enough people to have it tested (means |
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more to try it out), but enough people to have it _analyzed_ independently |
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(this one will constrain the set of possible persons a lot) _and_ made the |
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results public (I fear this one is also a working limit on that set). |
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Not that I want to correct you in any way, but I think that's the essence of |
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what you wanted to express - only to make things clear. |
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Kind regards! |
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Eckard |
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