If you give me a hash, I can make a cipher (and vice-versa) so while a hash looks innocent enough (just some function with pseudo-random outputs) it can be used to make a cipher.
See Applied Crypto for Luby-Rackoff. Oscar (Boykin) On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 05:50:20PM +0000, Timm Murray wrote: > Would that even be possible? Freenet basicly can't work at all without CHKs, and CHK >uses cryptographic hashes. Perhaps hashes wouldn't count? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pobox.com/~boykin ICQ: 5118680 Key fingerprint = 159A FA02 DF12 E72F B68F 5B2D C368 3BCA 36D7 CF28
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