Re:The World’s Fastest DES Cracker
by dogma1138 on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @03:00AM
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Historic traffic isn’t going to be much of an issue at all, as for AES-GCM specifically then nonce reuse will still likely be an issue well before a QSweet32 attack will be.
As for ChaCha et al, it’s still not that easy to start using it.
Not that many proven standardized implementations exist, hardware acceleration and performance issue are still there, the amount of research on these ciphers is still dwarfed by the amount of research done against AES and since these aren’t industry standards it’s harder to implement them in systems that require wide interoperability and are pretty much a no go in any industry that has its own standards.
Using extended ChaCha is cool for your side project, but try to implement it to say protect card payments in a system that needs to go through a PCI certification for example.
As for ChaCha et al, it’s still not that easy to start using it.
Not that many proven standardized implementations exist, hardware acceleration and performance issue are still there, the amount of research on these ciphers is still dwarfed by the amount of research done against AES and since these aren’t industry standards it’s harder to implement them in systems that require wide interoperability and are pretty much a no go in any industry that has its own standards.
Using extended ChaCha is cool for your side project, but try to implement it to say protect card payments in a system that needs to go through a PCI certification for example.