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AES Announced as Federal Standard

Posted by michael on from the government-gets-better-locks dept.

chekhov writes: "Today NIST has finally announced AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) as a Federal Standard after 4 years of development. See the press release. AES is the replacement of DES and is expected to be used in financial systems and secure networks for up to 20 years. More information on the AES homepage."

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  1. Re:Standard by lhaeh · · Score: 0, Troll

    It won't need backdoors if the government keeps it around for 20 years, with a 256 bit key size it won't be of much use then.

  2. Re:Quantum Computing by linzeal · · Score: 0, Troll
    Yeah looks like your right

    To: Dick@whitehouse.gov
    From: Georgie@whitehouse.gov

    How do you spell beroot?

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  3. Re:OSS authors: Don't pick self-destructive names. by pkesel · · Score: 0, Troll

    And Windows is a serious name? It does make a serious statement about the security level, I guess.

    I guess your name is probably Barney Fife. I think you take yourself seriously while everyone else probably laughs at you.

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