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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:17:38
David Honig (honig@sprynet.com)
Sat, 19 Dec 1998 14:50:41 -0800
>At 03:04 PM 12/10/98 -0800, ben kavanagh wrote:
>>I'm wondering if anyone on the list has done any analysis of
>>the symmetric key algorithm that has the smallest footprint
>>(binary size) and is somewhat secure and is unencumbered
>>license-wise. I have 3-4 kilobytes of space on a ROM for a compiled
>>C implementation and I'm looking for the best compromise.
Aren't stream ciphers usually less resource hungry than block ciphers?
Some (e.g., Rivest's Ciphers) are public domain.
By "somewhat secure" I trust you mean the resource vs. security
tradeoff must take into account resources :-)
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:17:38