On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 12:36:59 -0800,
"Wolfgang S. Rupprecht" <wolfgang.rupprecht(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Of course, with the Snowden revelations, one has to wonder how random
the randomly chosen internal AES key is. If it is from an intentionally
crippled RNG, it may be easy for someone in the know to do a brute-force
search for it.
It's not just deliberate stuff from the NSA but screwups as well. These
kinds of things are often kept as proprietary secrets that don't get
reviewed by someone that knows what they're doing. There is hardware for
AES, so it isn't that surprising that encryption can keep up.