Re: Preference of 3DES over AES-128

2013-12-18 Thread Fedor Brunner
On 05.12.2013 20:15, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 01:29:09PM +0100, Fedor Brunner wrote: > >> The default cipher settings in OpenSSL prefer 3DES over AES-128. In >> general, Triple DES with three independent keys has a key length of 168 >> bits, but due to the meet-in-the-mi

Re: Preference of 3DES over AES-128

2013-12-05 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 01:29:09PM +0100, Fedor Brunner wrote: > The default cipher settings in OpenSSL prefer 3DES over AES-128. In > general, Triple DES with three independent keys has a key length of 168 > bits, but due to the meet-in-the-middle attack, the effective security > it provides is

Preference of 3DES over AES-128

2013-12-04 Thread Fedor Brunner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi all, the default cipher settings in OpenSSL prefer 3DES over AES-128. In general, Triple DES with three independent keys has a key length of 168 bits, but due to the meet-in-the-middle attack, the effective security it provides is only 112 bits