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Aloha!
Stephan Neuhaus wrote:
On 2013-09-04 16:37, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
Phil Karn described a construction for turning any hash function
into the core of a Feistel cipher in 1991. So far as I can tell,
such ciphers are actually quite secure,
As a pure aside...
On Tue, 3 Sep 2013 15:16:14 -0400 Faré fah...@gmail.com wrote:
Can't you trivially transform a hash into a PRNG, a PRNG into a
cypher, and vice versa?
Phil Karn described a construction for turning any hash function into
the core of a Feistel cipher in 1991. So far as I can
On 2013-09-04 16:37, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
Phil Karn described a construction for turning any hash function into
the core of a Feistel cipher in 1991. So far as I can tell, such
ciphers are actually quite secure, though impractically slow.
Pointers to his original sci.crypt posting would be
