On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 11:49:59PM -0500, Tom Kaitchuck wrote:
> On Thursday 03 July 2003 08:51 pm, Toad wrote:
> > http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0209.html#1
> >
> > This seems to suggest that AES with a 256 bit key can be cracked in
> > 2^100 effort. It is unclear what effect this would have on 128 bit AES,
> > however it seems prudent to use 256 bits if we can. Implementation
> > details? Any opposition?
> 
> Hey, while we're on the subject I think the data store should default to 64bit 
> (Blowfish). I find that gives better performance than 128 bit. And sense it 
> does not prevent a node operator form knowing the contents of their store, 
> because they could just turn it off... And there is the same protection 
> legally speaking whether is is 64 or 128 bit, we might as well use the faster 
> system. 

We don't encrypt the store and haven't done since we got rid of the
monolithic datastore in October.
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