[pycrypto] RSA exportKey question

[Jesus Cea]

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On 04/07/13 02:37, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote:
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> On Jul 3, 2013, at 5:26 PM, Legrandin wrote:
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>> I find 3DES is as good as AES for most practical purposes.
> 
> I'm curious what your metrics are for that conclusion.
> 
> By way of comparison, the new draft for the RFC covering storage 
> protocol security (successor to RFC 3723) switches from 3DES to
> AES for clearly stated reasons, one of which is the fact that 64
> bit blocks and large quantities of data don't go well together.
> If you're dealing with small quantities of data, 3DES might still
> be good enough, but I still don't see an obvious reason to stick
> with a rather ancient cipher when a well-vetted replacement is
> available.

<https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-storm-ipsec-ips-update-01>.
Section 2.2.

Also, modern x86 CPUs have AES support in the hardware:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES_instruction_set>

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