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Re:NIST may not have you in mind by planckscnst on Sunday October 21, 2012 @12:38PM (#4680008)
Interesting; it was what's in the Linux kernel.
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Re:NIST may not have you in mind by tptacek on Sunday October 21, 2012 @12:40PM (#4680012)
Pretty sure that's an S-box AES. The issue is that when implemented (a) in software (b) without reliance on large lookup tables --- ie, "securely" --- AES is significantly slower.
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