Re: NSA backdoors and Set Preferred Cipher

2013-09-08 Thread Filip M. Nowak
On 09/08/2013 01:45 AM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > On 9/7/2013 4:59 PM, Filip M. Nowak wrote: >> Is CAMELLIA's pick as least preferred cipher - omitted/disregarded by >> NIST (US) but certified by NESSIE (EU) and CRYPTREC (Japan) - is somehow >> related to those revelations? > > NIST couldn't consi

Re: NSA backdoors and Set Preferred Cipher

2013-09-07 Thread Werner Koch
On Sun, 8 Sep 2013 01:38, r...@sixdemonbag.org said: > Twofish, but the recipient doesn't support it... then CAST5, but that's > not supported... then Blowfish, again not supported... hey, 3DES. 3DES Nitpicking: CAST5 is a SHOULD algorithm Implementations MUST implement TripleDES. Implemen

Re: NSA backdoors and Set Preferred Cipher

2013-09-07 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 9/7/2013 8:11 AM, Mike Acker wrote: > i have altered my cipher preference list as follows Why? Your preference list makes no sense. > TWOFISH CAST5 BLOWFISH 3DES AES AES192 AES256 CAMELLIA128 > CAMELLIA192 CAMELLIA256 GnuPG and PGP will stop as soon as they hit 3DES. They won't even look at

Re: NSA backdoors and Set Preferred Cipher

2013-09-07 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 9/7/2013 4:59 PM, Filip M. Nowak wrote: > Is CAMELLIA's pick as least preferred cipher - omitted/disregarded by > NIST (US) but certified by NESSIE (EU) and CRYPTREC (Japan) - is somehow > related to those revelations? NIST couldn't consider it for an AES candidate because it hadn't been invent

Re: NSA backdoors and Set Preferred Cipher

2013-09-07 Thread Filip M. Nowak
Hello On 09/07/2013 02:11 PM, Mike Acker wrote: > a lot of information has been reported recently > > regarding NSA an back-door entries behind digital encryption > > attached are some notes I offe

Re: NSA backdoors and Set Preferred Cipher

2013-09-07 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 07.09.2013, Mike Acker wrote: > based on recent revelations we should probably not use any commercially > offered cipher Define "commercially used cipher". I don't think the crypto ist the problem or the solution. Prism is mostly about traffic analysis, which is not significantly affected b

Re: NSA backdoors and Set Preferred Cipher

2013-09-07 Thread Pete Stephenson
On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Mike Acker wrote: > a lot of information has been reported recently regarding NSA an back-door > entries behind digital encryption > > attached are some notes I offered recently on the MINT forum > > i have altered my cipher preference list as follows > > TWOFISH CA

NSA backdoors and Set Preferred Cipher

2013-09-07 Thread Mike Acker
a lot of information has been reported recently regarding NSA an back-door entries behind digital encryption attached are some notes I offered recently on the MINT forum i have altered my cipher pr