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The title is funny, they even intentionally put "military grade" in there to make the sarcasm even more apparent. This is different from click bait, which I see as an intentional dark pattern.
I think it would be a far better headline if "military grade AES-1024" were put in scare quotes. Otherwise it just looks like clickbait and presumably keeps a lot of people from ever clicking on it.
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Unless someone is specifically naming the military standard they are compliant with (and provides an auditing record!) it’s bullshit, 99.99% of the time. Legit vendors who sell actual mil-spec equipment (except stuff that has known shitty mil-specs like entrenching tools) don’t use ‘military grade’ anywhere when they’re selling to the military. They go through procurement and identify the specific mil-spec’s they are…
Fair enough. The words mean nothing while implying exactly what I thought but not saying it, and I was one of the fools who fell for it. Although I won't after today. Thank you.
I consider it part of the war against Bullshit, which never ends.
Also, ‘industrial grade’, ‘heavy duty’, ‘as seen on TV’ (that one is thankfully almost dead), celebrity endorsements, and the trend in tools over the last decade of buying out an aging brand with a great market reputation and ‘capturing brand value’ by selling cheaply made versions until no one can find anything fit for purpose anymore.
Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't AES a group, like DES? If so, encrypting twice under keys of the same strength is the same as encrypting once, with a different key.
This is why, e.g., 3-DES uses encryption-decryption-encryption, under different keys.