On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 10:28:56AM +0100, Johannes Weiss wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > UNfortunately, WIN-SSH is very buggy, it only works if I take the 3des > algorithm, if I take one of the others (blowfish,...) it crashed. >
What is unfortunate about that? From my experience, 3DES is used more commonly than any other crypto algorithm for things like SSH and IPSEC. I know that some people feel that Blowfish, Twofish, and friends are too new to be thoroughly tested. DES (and thus 3DES) has withstood 30 years of cryptanalysis. The only weakness found in DES, a weakness known from the very beginning, is that the short keylength makes it vulnerable to a brute force attack, which is why 3DES was creates. 3DES is basically DES cubed, and effectively uses a 168 bit key, which is quite secure by modern standards. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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