Rene, thanks for clarifying my thoughts on this. You're right, in one sense,
piling on on the bandwagon is often counterproductive. I'm reminded of
Dijkstra's article "goto statement considered harmful", in 1968, which was
cogent and important, but inspired any number of "XXX considered harmful"
My argument was aimed at focusing on the real topic at hand, not at
mixing this with "religious" beliefs as ditching ciphers without clear
justification (no matter how ancient 3-DES may be [I was in elementary
school then]).
I think it is unwise thinking too lightly about writing IETF drafts w
> On Aug 29, 2016, at 6:26 AM, Rene Struik wrote:
>
> I think it is a mistake to think that simply using block ciphers with a
> larger block size is enough to counter attacks, as the literature on
> successful side channel attacks on such block cipher demonstrates. The real
> message is that
