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Date: Tue Nov  1 19:04:36 2005
From: jlongs2 at uic.edu (James Longstreet)
Subject: Comparing Algorithms On The List
	OfHard-to-brut-force?


On Nov 1, 2005, at 12:11 PM, Brandon Enright wrote:

> IIRC, there aren't any good known attacks against Blowfish, AES, or  
> Twofish
> so the *RIGHT* algorithm is whatever works best for your application.

Depending on the situation, there may be a feasible cache-timing  
attack on software implementations of AES: http://cr.yp.to/ 
antiforgery/cachetiming-20050414.pdf