Re: Rijndael NTRU
At 11:36 PM 10/2/00 -0400, Vin McLellan wrote: Paulo Barreto [EMAIL PROTECTED] quipped: Or it might not have occurred to everyone to prepare just-in-case releases for each of the finalists and wait for NIST's verdict ;-) Yeah, I thought of that too;-) The NTRU folk, however, didn't wait for today's announcement to place their bet. While I'm not aware of many companies doing anything about it, it's not really that tough - all of the algorithms had relatively similar parameters and sizes and calling requirements, and they were required to provide reference editions. So you should be able to write a couple of routines like aes_keyschedule(parm1, parm2...) aes_encrypt(*key, data) aes_decrypt(*key, data) and plug in the reference editions with some format-munger glue. Tuning the algorithms for your hardware and software environment is more work, and maybe you want to wait till there's a winner, but you get to claim you were way ahead of the curve by announcing support the day of the announcement... Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639
Re: Rijndael NTRU
On Tue, 03 Oct 2000, Vin McLellan wrote: Apparently the fact that Rujndael was the/a leading AES candidate was apparent to some prescient souls (not me sigh) at least since AES3 in N.Y. last April. As Bram Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] put it: . The selection of Rijndael was actually quite predictable - the round 2 .. report made it pretty clear that the only real contenders were Rijndael c. and Twofish, and hey, that last coin toss is free with 20/20 hindsight :) Actually I had the clear impression that there were three real contenders: Rijndael, Serpent, and Twofish, in this order. Paulo.
Re: Rijndael NTRU
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Vin McLellan me wrote: Apparently the selection of Rijndael -- pronounced "Reign Dahl" or "Rain Doll" -- was not a big surprise to everyone. Just got a note from Scott Crenshaw, the CEO of NTRU Cryptosystems (www.ntru.com, one of the firms I consult for), expressing satisfaction at having "backed the right horse" while others dozed;-) Paulo Barreto [EMAIL PROTECTED] quipped: Or it might not have occurred to everyone to prepare just-in-case releases for each of the finalists and wait for NIST's verdict ;-) Yeah, I thought of that too;-) The NTRU folk, however, didn't wait for today's announcement to place their bet. The NTRU reference implementation for embedded systems -- the NERI toolkit the company has been shipping for a couple of months -- includes Rijndael code described as "an excellent complement to our core public key technology." Anyone know of any other commercial firms (other than the respective developers) which made an overt pre-announcement commitment to one of the AES candidates? Apparently the fact that Rujndael was the/a leading AES candidate was apparent to some prescient souls (not me sigh) at least since AES3 in N.Y. last April. As Bram Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] put it: . The selection of Rijndael was actually quite predictable - the round 2 . report made it pretty clear that the only real contenders were Rijndael . and Twofish, and hey, that last coin toss is free with 20/20 hindsight :) Suerte, _Vin __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
