>This is nothing more than salesmanship, cutting ciphers down to absurd >numbers of reduced rounds in order to have some kind of "cryptanalytic" >results to report against them. Aaaaahhhh ! You attacked B. Fucking Schneier ! Prepare for a barrage of rebuttals from groupies. In the States idolatry level wrt crypto celebrities is matched only by that of Oprah fans. Soon, Cryptologia will carry gossip columns about who fucked whom.

