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Re: Incorporation of AES into IPSec
On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 10:06:38AM -0500, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> Will AES's primary advantage over 3DES be speed?
it will be much faster and lets hope as secure.
> I know that DES is now
> considered weak... but that's because if its keyspace of 56 bits. Is
> 3DES considered plenty strong but slow?
yes
> If you were wanting to protect
> data for 50 years, would 3DES be good enough?
it's hard to do prediction over so long time, but 3DES has a 168bits key.
it is safe against a brute force attack. A cryptanalitic breakthrough
is possible but not likely because DES is a well studied algrorithm
and the basis of 3DES.
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