Sophie SchmiegMar 8, 2024
Q: What would you do if there was a catastrophic attack on AES?
Me: buy a dairy farm in the alps while money still has meaning, and run a little Almhütten in isolation, while civilization collapses around me.
Show threadSpaceLifeForm

@sophieschmieg

I have never trusted AES considering the source.

For some reason, there are hardware instructions.

#SiliconTurtles

Mar 8, 2024 at 11:01pmWeb
Show threadSophie SchmiegMar 8, 2024
@SpaceLifeForm what is so untrustworthy about the Belgians?
Show threadSpaceLifeFormMar 8, 2024

@sophieschmieg

Tux does not live there.

https://words.filippo.io/the-ecb-penguin/

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2023/05/nist-updates-fips-197-advanced-encryption-standard-aes

This update makes no technical changes to the algorithm specified in the standard, which was originally published in 2001.

The ECB Penguin

Show threadSophie SchmiegMar 9, 2024
@SpaceLifeForm what does ECB mode have to do with anything here?! This is not a problem with AES, or even NIST.
Show threadSpaceLifeFormMar 9, 2024

@sophieschmieg

I obviously misunderstood your point.

I know you know the math.