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Re: [Cfrg] matching AES security

Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> Fri, 01 August 2014 13:10 UTC

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Watson Ladd <watsonbladd@gmail.com> writes:

>Except that the issue isn't doing 2^128 calculations: it's what you have when
>you have only done 2^70 or so calculations. The relevant paper is
>http://cr.yp.to/snuffle/bruteforce-20050425.pdf.

That was the one that postulated (goes back to paper) a custom device with
2^42 bytes of memory and 2^32 keysearch engines that required 2^36 inputs.
That's 100 terabytes of RAM, 4 billion keysearch engines, and around 70
billion sets of input data.

I'm not overly concerned.

(Having said that, it's an interesting FYI and aptly gets across what's
described in the abstract, it's just a long way down on the things-to-keep-me-
up-at-night register).

Peter.

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