Tag: wear-out

Lightning Round

Post author By Soatok
Post date August 16, 2021
5 Comments on Lightning Round

An assortment of topics that don’t quite deserve their own dedicated blog post.

Tags asymmetric cryptography, ECDSA, Florida, furries, Furry Fandom, HMAC, Politics, RSA, wear-out

Cryptography

Cryptographic Wear-Out for Symmetric Encryption

Post author By Soatok
Post date December 24, 2020
20 Comments on Cryptographic Wear-Out for Symmetric Encryption

As we look upon the sunset of a remarkably tiresome year, I thought it would be appropriate to talk about cryptographic wear-out. What is cryptographic wear-out? It’s the threshold when you’ve used the same key to encrypt so much data that you should probably switch to a new key before you encrypt any more. Otherwise, […]

Tags AES, AES-CBC, AES-GCM, birthday attack, birthday bound, cryptography, safety margin, Security Guidance, symmetric cryptography, symmetric encryption, wear-out