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doc: remove faulty justification for 128-bit AES
This sentence implies that AES-128 is preferred over AES-256 because of a related-key attack from 2009. However, that attack by Alex Biryukov, Orr Dunkelman, Nathan Keller, Dmitry Khovratovich, and Adi Shamir, while impressive, is only effective against variants of AES-256 with a reduced number of rounds and it requires related keys. This means that the attack is not effective against AES-256 as it is used within TLS. (AES-128 is still often preferred over AES-256 simply because it is believed to be sufficiently secure and because it is faster.) PR-URL: #42578 Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Mestery <mestery@protonmail.com> Reviewed-By: Mohammed Keyvanzadeh <mohammadkeyvanzade94@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
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