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Date:      Thu, 14 Mar 2002 04:23:11 -0700
From:      "John R. Shannon" <john@johnrshannon.com>
To:        "jack xiao" <jack_xiao99@hotmail.com>, <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: AES
Message-ID:  <200203141123.g2EBNB7e006688@pablo.johnrshannon.com>
In-Reply-To: <OE49JNoEl4jksr6UrKl000037bf@hotmail.com>
References:  <OE49JNoEl4jksr6UrKl000037bf@hotmail.com>

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AES and DES are compared on this AES fact sheet:

http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/aes/aesfact.html

The problem with DES is that it's 56 bit key, which was adequate in the 70s, 
can be discovered by exhaustive keysearch. 

3DES attacks this by applying DES 3 times: encrypt with 1 key, decrypt with a 
second, and encrypt with a third. The best known attack on 3DES is O(2^108) 
operations with something like 2^64 storage. The problem with 3DES, is it's 
high computational cost.

On Wednesday 13 March 2002 08:54 pm, jack xiao wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can anybody show me some resource about the comparison between AES and 3DES
> or DES?
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Jack
>

-- 

John R. Shannon
john@johnrshannon.com

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