Guys, This is just a reminder that the NIST hash workshop (Oct 31-Nov 1 of this year) is still taking submitted talks, abstracts, etc., until July 15. There are no proceedings, so there should not be any problem publishing things that you discuss at this workshop. A major goal of doing this is to get people to discuss interesting ongoing work so we can understand it now, rather than after we've made decisions about how to react to all the excitement in the hash function world. (For what it's worth, I plan on presenting some new hash function results with Yoshi Kohno that we intend to publish somewhere else. I expect we'll post these on the ECRYPT server before that.)
This workshop is going to have a big impact on decisions like whether we should do some AES-like process to get a new hash function standard, whether we should try to standardize on some additional algorithms (like Whirlpool or the Russian standard GOST hash function), etc. Taking part is a great opportunity to influence those decisions. If you have something new to say about hash functions, or something old that should be repeated, send us some slides, or at least an extended abstract, and we'll see whether we can fit you onto the agenda for some discussion time. --John Kelsey, NIST, July 2005 --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]