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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:10:56
bram (bram@gawth.com)
Fri, 7 Aug 1998 14:06:53 -0700 (PDT)
On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Bob Baldwin wrote:
> The creation of the internal state from the seed bytes can be done using
> one of the algorithms in section 18.11 of Schneier for creating one-way
> functions from block ciphers. The Davies-Meyer's construct would work
> well with 3-DES.
Don't the techniques for building hashes from block ciphers open them up
to completely different kinds of attacks, thus making reckless
transformation of one into the other not a good idea?
-Bram
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:10:56