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AES Finalists, Round 2

Posted by justin++ on from the onefish-twofish-bluefish-blowfish dept.

James Morris writes "NIST has announced the AES finalists for round two. (AES is new data encryption scheme intended to replace DES). The finalists are MARS (IBM), RC6 (RSA), Rijndael (Joan Daemen and Vincent), Serpent (Ross Anderson, Eli Biham and Lars Knudsen) and Twofish (Bruce Schneier and friends). " While this is the second round, the choosing of a finalist it still quite aways off.

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  1. Re:IDEA is fine, it's DES they're replacing... by cpt+kangarooski · · Score: 2
    And you're right, no crypto is strong enough to protect you from some attacks (e.g. Social Engineering...)

    Obviously you're unfamilar with the BuBBE algorithm. Blocks of ciphertext include reminders to not tell anyone your passwords, to overwrite plaintext and to eat your soup before it gets cold and ruined (in high security environments, the default exception for gazpacho is no longer allowed).

    There is a downside to this of course. You have to encrypt/decrypt messages at least once a day, and otherwise be a mensch to your software. If you don't, the whole algorithm gets farbissine, and that would be bad for you, you schlemazel.

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  2. Block Cipher Lounge by Ray+Dassen · · Score: 2

    You missed part of the URL; this is the real link for the Block Cipher Lounge

  3. Choice of PDF as file format. by Ray+Dassen · · Score: 2
    Don't complain about the existence of reasonable rules; don't complain about people enforcing reasonable rules.

    I'm not convinced that requiring PDF is a reasonable rule; it offers few if any advantages over other formats. There is little in crypto design documents that requires total control over presentation, so e.g. HTML would have done just as well, and be a whole lot less to download for us poor folks in countries where bandwidth costs real money.

    From NIST, being a body concerned with standards, I would find a requirement for documentation submitted in an official standard format (say SGML or XML) more logical than a requirement for a de-facto format like PDF.

  4. Re:Rijndael or Twofish will win. by Paul+Crowley · · Score: 2

    You can find out about all the Round 2 finalists, and other AES related websites, on NIST's Round 2 page: http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/aes/round2/round2. htm
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