Re: The MD6 hash function (rough notes)

2008-08-22 Thread Dustin D. Trammell
On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 10:26 -0700, "Hal Finney" wrote: > Ron Rivest presented his (along with a dozen other people's) new hash, > MD6, yesterday at Crypto. The slides for this presentation are available from Ronald's website: http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/Rivest-TheMD6HashFunction.ppt -- D

Re: The MD6 hash function (rough notes)

2008-08-22 Thread Dustin D. Trammell
On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 10:26 -0700, "Hal Finney" wrote: > Ron Rivest presented his (along with a dozen other people's) new hash, > MD6, yesterday at Crypto. ---8<---(snip)---8<--- > He also presented a number of cryptanalytic results. There is provable > security against differential cryptanalysis

RE: The MD6 hash function (rough notes)

2008-08-22 Thread Clausen, Martin (DK - Copenhagen)
See his presentation slides here http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/Rivest-TheMD6HashFunction.ppt. M -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of "Hal Finney" Sent: 21. august 2008 19:26 To: cryptography@metzdowd.com Subject: The MD6 has

The MD6 hash function (rough notes)

2008-08-21 Thread "Hal Finney"
Ron Rivest presented his (along with a dozen other people's) new hash, MD6, yesterday at Crypto. I am not a hash guru although I've implemented SHA and its ilk many times, so I can't guarantee all my notes are correct. I will compare it somewhat with SHA as that is what I know. SHA-1 is a Merkle D