[FedCom] FCC spooky contract

[David I. Emery]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 10:54:29PM -0700, gary wrote:

> Keeping it on target, here is a radio purchase request for Nellis AFB. I 
> hadn't heard of AES-256, but it is just another encryption scheme.

	AES is THE standard encryption scheme for both public and
certain government uses that was chosen to replace DES after an
extensive  review process involving both government and academic
cryptography researchers that chose it from a group of several other
proposed candidate algorithms that were very carefully studied for
security flaws and performance problems.   DES is now considered
obselete BTW.

	The 256 means the version of AES that works with 256 bit keys
(VERY LONG).   This version is approved for some kinds of classified 
information...

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