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. -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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