Re: [TLS] Comparative cipher suite strengths

Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de> Fri, 24 April 2009 09:33 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Comparative cipher suite strengths
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> All I want to do is to advise them, and other customers, that
> migrating from 3DES_EDE to AES-256 - without changing their
> certificates from 1024 bits - has provided no appreciable gain in
> security strength as the RSA keys are the weakest link in the
> chain. All we are doing in this case is using more processing power
> to provide the same level of security as we did previously.

Isn't AES-256 way faster than Triple DES?

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