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[AuH20]

32%? We're truly screwed.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOAgT8L_BqQ&feature=player_embedded

[DamianTV]

AES is becoming less and less secure. They used to use DES (Digital Encryption Standard) but since computers became faster and faster DES became easier and easier to crack. Eventually, it was decided that encrypting using DES three times with three different keys should be standard. Triple DES is the encryption algorythm that AES eventually replaced, but even it is going to become obsolete. AES-256 Military Grade can be cracked by the Military relatively quickly, but unless youre really on someones shitlist and they want to waste that much power on cracking your conversation about going to the store to buy tampons and diapers for your wife, this is probably sufficient for the time being.

[VBRonPaulFan]

AES is becoming less and less secure. They used to use DES (Digital Encryption Standard) but since computers became faster and faster DES became easier and easier to crack. Eventually, it was decided that encrypting using DES three times with three different keys should be standard. Triple DES is the encryption algorythm that AES eventually replaced, but even it is going to become obsolete. AES-256 Military Grade can be cracked by the Military relatively quickly, but unless youre really on someones shitlist and they want to waste that much power on cracking your conversation about going to the store to buy tampons and diapers for your wife, this is probably sufficient for the time being.


uh, this is news to me. where have you heard this? if you use a full and robust key, you should still be extremely secure with AES.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Researchers-Get-One-Step-Closer-to-Cracking-AES-217119.shtml


A different AES weaknesses found in 2009 allowed for an attack against an AES implementation that used four keys in a way controlled by an attacker, which is an unrealistic scenario.

Even though mathematically significant, in practical terms the new research doesn't mean much. It shows that the actual AES key length is 2 bits shorter than originally believed; AES-128 is actually AES-126, AES-192 is AES-190 and AES-256 is AES-254.

But "even with the new attack, the effort to recover a key is still huge: the number of steps to find the key for AES-128 is an 8 followed by 37 zeroes," the researchers explain. It would take a trillion machines trying a billion keys per second over two billion years to recover an AES-128 key.

[DamianTV]

That is freaking bazaar. That is not the same video I saw originally. Guy was talking about encrypted communications using AES. I dont get it.