David Wagner wrote: > Jim Hughes writes: >> The IEEE P1619 standard group has dropped LRW mode. It has a >> vulnerability that that are collisions that will divulge the mixing >> key which will reduce the mode to ECB. > > This is interesting. Could you elaborate on this? I suspect we could > all learn from the work the IEEE P1619 working group is doing. > > I tried to trawl the P1619 mailing list archives to find some detailed > analysis on the topic of collisions, as you suggested, but I probably > wasn't looking in the right places. The closest I found was this message: > http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/1619/email/msg01322.html > which estimates that if one continuously accesses the disk for 4.6 > years (roughly the average life time of a disk), the chances of seeing > a collision are about 1/2^29. Is that the analysis that triggered the > concern over collisions?
Google is your friend: http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/1619/email/msg00558.html Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.links.org/ "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]