Gentoo Archives: gentoo-security

From: Florian Philipp <lists@××××××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-security@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-security] Encryption Ciphers
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 10:44:23
Message-Id: 1204368208.5915.2.camel@NOTE_GENTOO64.PHHEIMNETZ
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-security] Encryption Ciphers by Mansour Moufid
1 On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 22:31 -0500, Mansour Moufid wrote:
2 > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 9:37 PM, Steffen Schulz <pepe_ml@×××.net> wrote:
3 > > 128bit are considered secure for the next several years.
4 > >
5 >
6 > On that subject, the CSEC (Communications Security Establishment
7 > Canada) publishes an updated summary of safe key cryptoperiods for
8 > different algorithms [1] which I like to use a reference.
9 >
10 > Sincerely,
11 > Mansour Moufid
12 >
13 > [1] http://www.cse-cst.gc.ca/services/crypto-services/crypto-algorithms-e.html
14
15 "The use of HMAC with SHA-1 shall be discontinued by the end of 2010."
16
17 Sounds like there is work to do for the cryptsetup-luks developers...
18
19 One last thing: Serpent doesn't seem to loose performance when used with
20 larger keys, still 28MB/s with 256bit keys.

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