Re: Two AES encryption modes?

[Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>]

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>>>>> "Dan" == Dan McDonald <danmcd@east.sun.com> writes:
    >> I'm pretty sure that we already decided that SOI would treat AES-128 and
    >> AES-256 as two entirely different ciphers as well.
    >> No argument about combinatorics.

    Dan> WHAT!?!  We already have Blowfish, which is variable key-sized, even though
    Dan> 2451 says its default is 128.  We shouldn't need to break existing semantics
    Dan> for AES!

  *Son-Of-Ike*

  You want to maintain that? WHY?

  I refuse to test my code for all the different key sizes available for BlowFish.
  I further refuse to even implement all of those combinations.

  Now, when I say "Blowfish" - do you really want users^H^H^H^H^Hmarketing to
worry about the length you support? 

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