RE: Question on encryption algorithms brittleness

2013-03-11 Thread toorandom
.org [owner-openssl-...@openssl.org] on > behalf of Ben Laurie [b...@links.org] > Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 14:16 > To: openssl-dev@openssl.org > Subject: Re: Question on encryption algorithms brittleness > > On 11 March 2013 11:09, Ido Regev wrote: > > Hi, > >

RE: Question on encryption algorithms brittleness

2013-03-11 Thread Yair Elharrar
256-bit. Good luck. From: owner-openssl-...@openssl.org [owner-openssl-...@openssl.org] on behalf of Ben Laurie [b...@links.org] Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 14:16 To: openssl-dev@openssl.org Subject: Re: Question on encryption algorithms brittleness On 11 March 2

RE: Question on encryption algorithms brittleness

2013-03-11 Thread Salz, Rich
Find an unhappy employee and offer them a couple-hundred thousand Euro for their password. The question/requirement as stated is unanswerable, and certainly not by the well-meaning volunteers who frequent this list. /r$ -- Principal Security Engineer Akamai Technology Cambridge, MA _

Re: Question on encryption algorithms brittleness

2013-03-11 Thread Ben Laurie
On Behalf Of Jason Gerfen > Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 4:29 PM > To: openssl-dev@openssl.org > Subject: Re: Question on encryption algorithms brittleness > > > > NIST has more details. http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/PubsFIPS.html See > FIPS 200 (Minimum guidelines), FIPS

RE: Question on encryption algorithms brittleness

2013-03-11 Thread Green, Paul
safe answer is "go hire an expert". PG From: owner-openssl-...@openssl.org [mailto:owner-openssl-...@openssl.org] On Behalf Of Ido Regev Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 7:09 AM To: openssl-dev@openssl.org Subject: RE: Question on encryption algorithms brittleness Hi, I hav

RE: Question on encryption algorithms brittleness

2013-03-11 Thread Ido Regev
l-dev@openssl.org Subject: Re: Question on encryption algorithms brittleness NIST has more details. http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/PubsFIPS.html See FIPS 200 (Minimum guidelines), FIPS 198--1 (HMAC), FIPS 197 (AES, symmetric algorithms) & FIPS 185 (PKI escrow) On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 7:15

Re: Question on encryption algorithms brittleness

2013-03-06 Thread Matt Caswell
This site would be a good place to start: http://www.keylength.com/ Matt On 6 March 2013 13:56, Ido Regev wrote: > We have a requirement from one of our customers regarding the encryption > algorithms – "Make use of published public encryption algorithms that are > considered to be practicall