[tor-talk] Encryption and Bridges

[Michael McConville]

Justin wrote:
> I was reading the second Tor design paper. It said that Tor used
> AES-128 encryption (TLS). Does Tor still use AES-128 or has it been
> upgraded to AES-256?

Last I checked, it was still using AES-128. It's much faster, often an
order of magnitude faster because of hardware acceleration, and is
extremely unlikely to be the weakest link of Tor's crypto.