[Cryptography] AES-256- More NIST-y? paranoia

[Ray Dillinger]

On 10/02/2013 02:13 PM, Brian Gladman wrote:

> The NIST specification only eliminated Rijndael options - none of the
> Rijndael options included in AES were changed in any way by NIST.

Leaving aside the question of whether anyone "weakened" it, is it
true that AES-256 provides comparable security to AES-128?

			Bear