nlinecomputers Posted July 29, 2004 Share Posted July 29, 2004 Found this on Slashdot today. DES has been a problem for some time now. String enough computers together and you can crack it in a few days work. One of things I change on a SuSE install is it's default use of DES instead of Md5 for storing passwords. Most distros have done this for a while now but SuSE still using it. Mr. Manometer writes "With little fan-fare, NIST proposed yesterday to withdraw the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) for the Data Encryption Standard (DES) with a Federal Register notice (pdf). NIST is encouraging federal agencies to use the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) instead since they feel that DES is 'now vulnerable to key exhaustion using massive parallel computations.' We all knew this day would come as computers got faster & cheaper... and this should put more pressure on folks to use stronger encryption techniques with is a good thing." Some would argue that DES has been insufficient for some time now. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/29/1537233 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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