At 11:44 AM 5/8/00 -0600, Howard A. Gutowitz wrote:
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>> Does anyone know if any research has been done into the use of cellular
>> automata as one way functions? or even into the reversing of CAs?
>
>See my home page: http://www.santafe.edu/~hag
>There are two relevant items there:
>1) a patent on using CA for cryptography, in particular,
>running a collection of CA backward to encrypt, the same
>CA forward to decrypt.
...
Joan Daemen did some work on building a hash function/stream cipher engine
out of CA components a few years back. I know there's a reference in
_Applied Cryptography_. I have no idea whether this predates your work, or
whether it would have any impact on it.
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