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Adam Shostack (adam@homeport.org)
Fri, 24 Jul 1998 12:30:33 -0400 (EDT)
Perry E. Metzger wrote:
| OTOH, I wouldn't use skipjack, given Eli Biham's recent results. They
| don't break it, but they do make one wonder a bit.
Other people have also been getting interesting results. I
suspect that they are being held back for Crypto. Its going to be a
fun rump session for those of us who don't have any stake in Skipjack
or the AES process. :)
Skipjack may well survive; small changes can mean a lot;
witness the one xor change the NSA found worthwhile in SHA-1.
However, unlike RC4 or RC5, its not a small simple cipher; its
somewhat complex. With all that complexity, its surprising that there
are so many variants that can be broken (and broken so quickly).
I expected more for my money.
Adam
-- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:20:52 ADT