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Re: Proposal (was Summary re: /dev/random)

Damien Miller
Tue, 3 Aug 1999 05:13:47 -0700

On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Sandy Harris wrote:

> The question, then is how best to make it into
> a two-stage design. Mainly, choose a block cipher
> and modify the hashing to suit. 

You will never get a block cipher in the kernel because of export 
restrictions.

What is wrong with SHA1?

Regards,
Damien Miller

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