Encryption Update ** UPDATED **
(Update at the bottom) So, the NSA and IAD just released an advisory memo directed at US government entities and NGOs/Corporations that deal with classified material. In a nutshell, they are raising the minimum required encryption level for top secret data effective immediately. So instead of referring to the NSA's Suite B cryptography, we will now refer to what they are calling the Commercial National Security Algorithm Suite. The changes are as follows: Former Suite B standards - RSA-2048 (Key exchange/Digital Sig) - ECDH/ECDSA P-256 (Key exchange/Digital Sig) - AES-128 (Symmetric encryption) - Diffie-Hellman 2048 (Key exchange) - SHA-256 (Integrity check/hash) New NSS standards - RSA-3072 (Key exchange/Digital Sig) - ECDH/ECDSA P-384 (Key exchange/Di