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From: "Matthew J. Fanto" <mattf@mattjf.com>
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To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Subject: Re: The Ext3sj Filesystem
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On Wednesday 30 October 2002 03:00 pm, Andreas Dilger wrote:

> 1) having so many encryption algorithms is a huge pain in the ass, and
>    it will never be accepted into the kernel like that.  Pick some
>    "good" encryption algorithms (like those that will be supported as
>    part of IPSec and/or the encrypted loop devices: 3DES, AES, RC5 or
>    whatever) and then there can be some re-use with other parts of the
> kernel. 

I don't believe having so many algorithms is such a pain. It gives users more 
choices. I've spoke to people who will not trust AES, 3DES, SHA, and even 
the AES finalists because they believe NIST/NSA only picked weak algorithms. 
Obviously there will be a default algorithm (probably AES and SHA1), so I 
don't think having more algorithms will cause users problems. Only problem I 
see is maintaining all of them.

-Matthew J. Fanto

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