Re: [OT] Interference by multiple encryption.

[Jan Luehr <jluehr@xxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Am Sonntag, 20. November 2005 22:00 schrieb Christian Kujau:
> markus reichelt schrieb:
> > i faintly remember that one of these two algos, twofish or blowfish,
> > is not to be used for large amounts of data, like 200 GB or so. i
> > don't recall the speficics, only remember that there was some kind of
> > catch to it. any info on this would be greatly appreciated.
>
> i think it was a general issue with block-ciphers, as detailed here:
>
> http://www.cryptolabs.org/aes/WeisLucksAESattacksDS1202.html

Thus is there / will there be a loop-twofish for Linux / Unix?

Keep smiling
yanosz

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