AES suitable for protecting Top Secret information

[Vin McLellan]

I missed that announcement too -- but Wikipedia, the web-based Free 
Encyclopedia, caught it!  See Wikipedia on AES at: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES

The Wikipedia module on AES Security has a link to the same NSA fact sheet 
Steve mentioned.

I was surprised.  I thought, as in so many other things, the NSA was going 
to say one thing and do another.

Suerte,
         _Vin

At 4/14/2004, Steve Bellovin wrote:

>I haven't seen this mentioned on the list, so I thought I'd toss it
>out.  According to http://www.nstissc.gov/Assets/pdf/fact%20sheet.pdf ,
>AES is acceptable for protecting Top Secret data.  Here's the crucial
>sentence:
>
>    The design and strength of all key lengths of the AES algorithm
>    (i.e., 128, 192 and 256) are sufficient to protect classified
>    information up to the SECRET level. TOP SECRET information will
>    require use of either the 192 or 256 key lengths.

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      Vin McLellan + The Privacy Guild + <vin at theworld.com>
            22 Beacon St., Chelsea, MA 02150-2672 USA


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