Subject: Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE
To: Richard Coleman <rcoleman@criticalmagic.com>
From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
List: tech-security
Date: 03/03/2005 18:55:16
In message <42274A0C.5010403@criticalmagic.com>, Richard Coleman writes:
>For instance, the NIST specification for AES and CCM mode (NIST Special
>Publication 800-38C) specifically states that you must limit the number
>of invocations of the block cipher (specifically AES) to 2^61. Now, I
>realize that is an upper bound. But even after removing several orders
>of magnitude, that leaves a huge amount of material you can encrypt with
>a single key.
>
>Just throwing out a data point.
This would be much more interesting if you qouted the number they will
say ten and twenty years from now.
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