RE: RE: [ISN] DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding

[Mads Tansø <azmodan () linux online no>]

> > > It's a little difficult to completely avoid US products in the
> > > encryption field.  And if your response is along the lines of
"Open
> > > Source, can't hide anything", I'll save time and summarize my
rebuttal
> > > now; DES, Differential Cryptanalysis, NSA, 20 years.
> >
> > There's a ton of crypto software that's been developed
> overseas.  I guess
> > you missed my previous post, but think IDEA.
>
> Wasn't Rijndael (US's AES) developed by some Belgian folks?

< Yes, it was, Belgian or Indian, I think.  I didn't mention it becuse I
< couldn't remember how to spell it ;)
Belgian and Dutch...

< But since it's now the US's AES standard, who knows how strong it
is...
Strong enough, still using distributed approaches to crack keys,
although it'll be far less strong as hardware gets faster... Wouldn't
trust it to last more than a year or two more...

Azmo..
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