There has been an attack on the full AES-256 algorithm with space and time complexity of 2^119. Reportedly, the attack works on all keys.
https://cryptolux.uni.lu/mediawiki/uploads/1/1a/Aes-192-256.pdf Bruce Schneier mentions this in his blog: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/07/new_attack_on_a.html Some of the new SHA-3 algorithm candidates may be affected, too... Best Regards, Peter Djalaliev -- dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto