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Re: [STDS-P1619] Applicability of recent attacks on AES-256 to IEEE 1619 modes



Matt Ball wrote:
> I'm sure you've all seen the recent news on cryptographic breaks of
> AES-256. [...]

These results are all related-key attacks. (Quoting a famous
cryptanalyst, "related-key attacks are what you publish if you
couldn't get any real attack.")

Whether these techniques can be extended beyond related-key attacks
is anyones guess, it currently seems that it would be very hard to
do so. So AES is safe, at least for now.

-- Shai