From owner-freebsd-security Tue Oct 17 10:32: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mail.kyx.net (cr95838-b.crdva1.bc.wave.home.com [24.113.50.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D909D37B4D7 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 10:31:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smp.kyx.net (unknown [10.22.22.45]) by mail.kyx.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 6ADF41DC03; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 10:32:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Dragos Ruiu Organization: kyx.net To: Mipam , Sam Wun Subject: Re: New encription algo AES Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 10:24:25 -0700 X-Mailer: KYX-CP/M [version core00-mail-92] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0010171032181C.46274@smp.kyx.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Mipam wrote: > > Does anyone know anything about AES? > > There is a nice pdf paper about Rijndael: > > ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-trier.de/pub/Users-TCS+NA/recker/rijndael/Rijndael.pdf > > Its a mathematical paper about it, but the new aes is explained in there > in detail. url: http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/aes/round2/aesfact.html One of the most informative sites on this IMHO is the NIST site itself where you'll find the code to this new standard in Java and Standard and Optimized C, the Algorithm description and the final comparison report. I'm still not quite sure what to make of this new algorithm. I'm sure it'll have least "pretty good" security. :-) My bottom line after skimming the reports... I know that it has been criticized for complexity and that it sucks cpu the worst out of all the candidates (except when we start going to newfangled 64 bit processors), but my advanced encryption standard still remains twofish. :-) But the momentuum behind AES will no doubt mean that we'll have to implement Rinjandel all over too. cheers, --dr :-) -- Dragos Ruiu dursec.com ltd. / kyx.net - we're from the future gpg/pgp key on file at wwwkeys.pgp.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message