On Friday, September 09, 2005 15:57:17 -0400 Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld%sun.com@localhost> wrote:
By my count, 9 people have expressed an opinion leading one way or the other; 6 were unambiguously in favor of aes128-ctr; one wants to wait for hardware counter mode support to materialize but seems to be leaning towards AES. One prefers 3des now but expects a migration to aes later. One person supported either aes128-ctr or aes256-ctr.
Add me to the AES column.
My proposed edit is to extend the paragraph reading: The "aes128-ctr" method uses AES (the Advanced Encryption Standard, formerly Rijndael) with 128-bit keys [AES]. The block size is 16 bytes. with: At this time it appears likely that a future revision of this specification will promote aes128-ctr to be REQUIRED; implementation of this algorithm is very strongly encouraged.
s/this specification/the SSH transport protocol specification [SSH-TRANS]/