Re: Re: Is AES better than RC4

2006-05-25 Thread Joseph Ashwood
- Original Message - From: "Ed Gerck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [!! SPAM] Re: Is AES better than RC4 Joseph Ashwood wrote: SOP: discard first 100's of bytes This is part of the lack of key agility. Using it securely requires so much in the way of heroic efforts SOP: hash th

Re: Is AES better than RC4

2006-05-25 Thread Ed Gerck
JA, Please note that my email was way different in scope. My opening sentence, where I basically said that it does not make much sense to compare RC4 with AES, was cut in your quote -- but here it is: "AES has more uses and use modes than RC4, in addition to the fact that it encrypts more than o

Re: Re: Is AES better than RC4

2006-05-25 Thread Joseph Ashwood
- Original Message - From: "Ed Gerck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [!! SPAM] Re: Is AES better than RC4 Please note that my email was way different in scope. My opening sentence, where I basically said that it does not make much sense to compare RC4 with AES, was cut in your quote -- b

Algebraic Attacks on Block Ciphers

2006-05-25 Thread James Muir
This may interest some list members: http://eprint.iacr.org/2006/168 Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2006/168 How Fast can be Algebraic Attacks on Block Ciphers ? Nicolas T. Courtois Abstract. In this paper we give a specification of a new block cipher that can be called the Courtois Toy Cip

RE: Phil Zimmerman and voice encryption; a Skype problem?

2006-05-25 Thread Adler, Joseph
Hi Paul, You left out one option: that Tony Rutkowski was misquoted by the Times. I checked with Tony, and this is, in fact, what happened. Here is his full response: Since the external security lists seem to b