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Re: AES: rijndael



On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 03:47:41PM -0400, eric jackson wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Martin Maciaszek wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 07:07:02PM +0200, Alex de Joode wrote:
> > > http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,39194,00.html
> > > 
> > > WASHINGTON -- It took 23 years, 15 different algorithms, and two
> > > conferences, but the U.S. government has finally chosen a new 
> > > encryption standard. 
> > > 
> > > The winner: Rijndael, a cipher created by a pair of Belgian
> > > cryptographers. 
> > 
> > I guess the obvious question is, when is OpenBSD gonna suport it?
> > ;))
> 
> 
> Already does, has for some time..
> 
> 1.1 Sat May 27 21:06:08 GMT 2000 by provos 
> 
> use rijndael instead of blowfish because of faster key setup.
> break swap paritions into sections, each section has own
> encryption key.  if a section's key becomes unreferenced, erase it.
> 

Wow! That's sooner that I thought :)

> 
> 		Eric Jackson
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Regards
> > Martin
> > 
> > -- 
> > Stinginess with privileges is kindness in disguise.
> > 		-- Guide to VAX/VMS Security, Sep. 1984
> > 
> 

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