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Re: [hybi] AES-128-CTR not much safer, but not fast either

Bruce Atherton <bruce@callenish.com> Mon, 10 January 2011 19:23 UTC

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On 09/01/2011 11:55 PM, Adam Barth wrote:
> Or we could just use AES-128-CTR like everyone else in the known
> universe and not worry about whether we've shaved exactly the right
> number of hairs off our home-brew pseudo crypto.

I've written applications that use simple XOR masking because 
AES-128-CTR is unnecessarily complex. Does that mean I'm now in an 
unknown universe?

Cool. Do I get to win the lottery in this one?

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