New optimized AES code (bug report)

[Julius C. Duque]

On Wed, 23 May 2001, Werner Koch wrote:

> On Fri, 19 May 2000, Julius C. Duque wrote:
> 
> > Any chance of using this version instead in the next
> > release of gpg?
> 
> You won't notice the speedup because in most setups the public key
> cryptography part consumes all the time.  AES is already much faster
> than the other algorithms so that I consider that not to be an
> urgent task.

I just did some checks on the AES version that gpg uses, and the
newer versions of the AES. gpg uses version 2.3 of AES which
contains a bug. On version 2.4, the code implementors of AES said:


		Changes from v2.3
		-----------------

		Fixed a small bug in CBC mode.




Version 3 of AES is now out.

Also, could the developers add Serpent?

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