Re: Any KEA implementations out there?

Peter Gutmann (pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz)
Mon, 27 Jul 1998 02:24:25 (NZST)

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>>Got any pointers to such?
 
>I didn't, so I decided it was time to make my own. I've been checking out the
>CryptLib 2.0 docs+source and have hacked together part of a KEA plugin for
>CryptLib.
 
>Thus far I've done a backend keaDecrypt() that takes the two shared DH values
>t and u, and threshes them with Skipjack to produce the KEA Key. This assumes
>the availability of a CryptLib'ed implementation of Skipjack, of which only
>the algorithm ID (CRYPT_ALGO_SKIPJACK, thanks to Peter G.'s foresight) seems
>to exist so far. :-)
 
Skipjack has been in the 2.1 betas since a few hours after the spec was
released. Available via the "Download" page of
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/cryptlib/.
 
Peter.
 

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