[Info-vax] BridgeWorks

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Tue, 23 Jul 2024 19:07 +0100 (BST), John Dallman wrote:

> In article <v7n59g$11h0t$1 at dont-email.me>, ldo at nz.invalid (Lawrence
> D'Oliveiro) wrote:
> 
>> The original recommendation was to stick with AES-128, and not bother
>> with AES-192 or AES-256; as far as I know that hasn't changed.
> 
> That very definitely depends on your use case. My first one, back in
> about 2012, was protecting archives of source code that would still be
> valuable now. AES-256 was a no-brainer.

The thing is, AES-256 showed signs of some weaknesses (some kind of 
collisions/congestion in the bit-swizzling somewhere) that AES-128 does 
not suffer from.