Quote Originally Posted by Clint View Post
Well, I think Vista is using 140-2 now.

With Vista and 2008 server they have added three new modes in the CNG; CBC, CCM (Counter with CBC) and GCM (Galois/Counter Mode) of wich CCM and GCM uses the AES-128 Algorithm.

The first thing that comes to mind when thinking about Vista "features" and AES-128 algoritms is of course that the HD content sent to video devices has to be encrypted with AES-128.

Allow me to quote from Gutmann's page.

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut00..._cost.html#cpu

CNG features:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb204775.aspx

..there is not enough info available today regarding the content of the SP3 for XP, but rest assured that MS and allies can't let the XP users (now that they have prolonged it's life due to ppl's recent to Vista) sit and "be without" those fantastic "features" Vista provides to software and media makers.
IC,
What's going to happen eventually if performance decreases at all or have issues with certain media applications and downloading capabilities they are going to format and only use SP2. They may not know why they are having a problem but they will know they had no problem until SP3 was installed. Making this fruitless effort IMO. With Vista you have no choice, with XP you do. We will have to wait and see how this develops.

I found a MS document dating 2002 regarding this very issue right here. It a PDF file and its worth reading. They were using Kernel Mode Cryptographic Module since windows 2000. As a matter of fact if you look on page 3 you will see:
Windows 2000 with SP2 FIPS.SYS was
validated for FIPS 140-1 Level 1 in Jul 2000, Certificate # 106
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