Steve Bellovin writes:
Greg, assorted folks noted, way back when, that Skipjack looked a lot
like a stream cipher. Might it be vulnerable?
I'm still absorbing Adi's new ideas, and I haven't looked at this in any
detail, so anything I say should be taken with an enormous grain of salt.
But,
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David Wagner wrote:
It's a brilliant piece of research. If you weren't at CRYPTO, you missed
an outstanding talk (and this wasn't the only one!).
Yes, the program chair and committee did a great job. Whatsisname? Oh,
yeah, David Wagner.
Greg.
Yes, of course Adi is correct, but I blame you for reading what I wrote
and not what I meant... :-)
Adi mentioned that the slides and paper will go online around the
deadline for Eurocrypt submission; it will all become much clearer than
my wounded explanations then.
thanks and regards,
Ron Rivest presented his (along with a dozen other people's) new hash,
MD6, yesterday at Crypto. I am not a hash guru although I've implemented
SHA and its ilk many times, so I can't guarantee all my notes are correct.
I will compare it somewhat with SHA as that is what I know.
SHA-1 is a Merkle
