Bug#476441: Please revist this choice. AES128 vs AES256 (for gnutls)

Robert de Bath robert$ at debath.co.uk
Mon Mar 24 03:35:40 UTC 2014


Okay 'cited':
Summary for "drop dead" of TDEA aka 3DES from (for example)
http://www.keylength.com/en/4/

Seems to be from:
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-67-Rev1/SP-800-67-Rev1.pdf
which explicitly drops approval of 3DES in 2030.

Re: Windows XP; that's now "officially" no longer a problem as Windows XP
is "officially" going out of support. The next batch of updates on the 
8/4/14 will be the last.  https://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifeselectindex

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Rob.                          (Robert de Bath <robert$ @ debath.co.uk>)
                                              <http://www.debath.co.uk/>



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