On Sat, 2013-10-05 at 12:18 -0700, james hughes wrote: > and the authors state that You know why other people than the authors are doing cryptoanalysis on algorithms? Simply because the authors may also oversee something in the analysis of their own algorithm.
So while the argument "the original authors said it's fine" sounds quite convincing, it is absolutely not - at least not per se. The authors may be wrong or they may even be bought as well by NSA or some other organisation. Of course this doesn't mean that I’d have indication that any of this was the case... I just don't like this narrow-minded "they said it's okay, thus we must kill of any discussion" argument, which has been dropped several times now. Cheers, Chris. _______________________________________________ The cryptography mailing list cryptography@metzdowd.com http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
