[svlug] Firewalls?

[Rick Moen]

Quoting John Conover (conover at rahul.net):

> BTW, the point is, some ciphers are better than others, but there is
> no such thing as an eternally trustworthy cipher.

I hate to spoil your fun, John, ;-> but please notice that I carefully
used the qualifier _unbroken_ cipher -- in quite a few places. 

Leaving that digression aside, I'm actually surprised that nobody popped
up to say "AES/Rijndael proves you're wrong".

The Rijndael symmetric cipher, though relatively new, was winner of
one of the most intensive worldwide cipher-attacking efforts in history,
the contest (2000-2001) to decide NIST's new Advanced Encryption Standard.
Therefore, despite its relative youth, it's extremely well tested.