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Re: AES128 or AES256 by default?
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Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos |
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Re: AES128 or AES256 by default? |
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Date: |
Fri, 16 May 2008 08:23:36 +0300 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080505) |
Simon Josefsson wrote:
> There is a debian bug:
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> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=476441
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> 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).
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> 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).