the skein hash function

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/10/the_skein_hash.html?1 October 29, 2008 The Skein Hash Function NIST is holding a competition to replace the SHA family of hash functions, which have been increasingly under attack. (I wrote about an early NIST hash workshop here.) Skein is our subm

Skein announced

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Re: combining entropy

This isn't enough. Somehow, you have to state that the values emitted on demand in any given round i (where a round consists of exactly one demand on all N member and produces a single output result) cannot receive any input from any other members. Otherwise, if N=2 and member 0 produces true

Re: combining entropy

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Leichter, Jerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >2. The Byzantine model. Failed modules can do anything >including cooperating by exchanging arbitrary >information and doing infinite computation. So in the Byzantine model I can