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Subject: Re: q&d comparison (was Re: [Cryptix-Users] Rijndael - the real work now begins)
From: Ben Laurie (benalgroup.co.uk)
Date: Sun Oct 08 2000 - 13:18:57 CDT

Ian Grigg wrote:
> On the amount of entropy, well, I'd leave that to a cryptographer,
> other than the observation that Rijndael has 128, 192, 256 bit keys,
> whilst DES has 56 bits and T-DES has 168 (full).

Nnng. I know you know this, but the triple DES key is only worth 112
bits. Which is why there is no double DES.

Cheers,

Ben. 

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