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List: gnutls-dev
Subject: Re: AES128 or AES256 by default?
From: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav () gnutls ! org>
Date: 2008-05-16 5:23:36
Message-ID: 482D1A58.90003 () gnutls ! org
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Simon Josefsson wrote:
> There is a debian bug:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=476441
>
> Which asks that we make AES-256 the default preferred cipher. Right now
> AES-128 is the default preferred cipher. Of course, today AES-256 is
> supported as well (it is the second preferred default cipher).
>
> What do people think here?
I also see no reason. Increasing the key size from 128bits to 256bits,
does not offer any additional security (given of course that AES is not
broken in other ways).
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