Aside from the curve change (and even there), this strikes me as a marketing message rather than an important technical choice. The message is "we react to a deeper class of threat than our users understand."
Fair enough, but I'd hardly stop using AES or the larger SHA-2 variants on the back of recent news. -Jared > On Oct 2, 2013, at 12:29 PM, "d.nix" <d....@comcast.net> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Callas' blog post: > > http://silentcircle.wordpress.com/2013/09/30/nncs/ > >> On 10/2/2013 8:41 AM, ianG wrote: >> http://www.infoworld.com/print/228000 >> >> October 02, 2013 Silent Circle moves away from NIST cryptographic >> standards, cites NSA concerns The company plans to replace AES and >> SHA-2 with Twofish and Skein in its encrypted communication >> services By Lucian Constantin | IDG News Service > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (MingW32) > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSTEn3AAoJEDMbeBxcUNAe3UwIAJ+wd6V5fPRYjVsGf7xqdOT0 > jdqeLLwASqMP1VXdOXpg5ETpF32EzTsOMw8Nd7ODnSsvOWXrzT4rvrO12IN9lEB5 > 3Sx62A89FhudcuXAXUWGJeCUYAN0m/uJs4Tpe/KcpRhSU88nWYBH8I7ySYnU95Gc > VmP3RyrXnxIQ3k9aMsUpoMwWhKxDuLV+jPFpsUgl9orvYdoWT1REVGzxjrWr+YY1 > JC/tSya9NpXEP1g+Me3KAlgC0gLufA5KNRM1J1Zss+ltWO2OHnGWOSjINRdvv8Fk > fPj65YeJqfvYdK6bM+ThPEzAUlcN93WwIMsYKKJ80KdD7/Td/Xsm9VaUsP2orgU= > =l+17 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > cryptography mailing list > cryptography@randombit.net > http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
