Re: Comparing Algorithms On The List OfHard-to-brut-force?

[Bipin Gautam <gautam.bipin () gmail com>]

On 11/1/05, Brandon Enright <bmenrigh () ucsd edu> wrote:
> Brute forcing an algorithm suggests that you are not attacking a weakness or
> known flaw in the algorithm but rather just running through the keyspace
> trying to recover the plaintext.  In that case, whichever allows you to use
> the most bits is what you want.
>
> IIRC, there aren't any good known attacks against Blowfish, AES, or Twofish
> so the *RIGHT* algorithm is whatever works best for your application.
>
> Also, your encrypt-decrypt-encrypt choices may be "more" secure from a pure
> brute force perspective but the marginal security they add doesn't negate
> the difficulty of key management.
>
> You should look into Bruce Schneier's book, "Applied Cryptography" (ISBN:
> 0471117099) for an excellent treatment on the subject.
>
>
> Brandon Enright

Yap, thanks for all your input.... i have looked at the book you
mentioned as well.... but i was searching for 'any short of'
statistic, REMEMBER?
anyways, thanks.......
Bipin Gautam
http://bipin.tk

Zeroth law of security: The possibility of poking a system from lower
privilege is zero unless & until there is possibility of direct,
indirect or consequential communication between the two...

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