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Re: my take on "PCP"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Mon May 5 08:58:49 2003
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To: Ralf Senderek <ralf@senderek.de>
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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: 05 May 2003 08:47:42 -0400
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Ralf Senderek <ralf@senderek.de> writes:
> On 4 May 2003, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>
> > If you are serious, submit a full description of your hash function
> > along with your evidence of its security against known forms of attack
> > to a peer-reviewed publication.
>
> The idea, the code, the explanation and my analysis are all in
>
> http://senderek.de/pcp/pcp-security.html
I said "peer reviewed publication", not "thing I put on my web site".
> And fortunately my seriousness does not at all depend on the fact
> whether or not I managed to get it into your favourite crypto journal.
> Not seeing it in print will never prevent further analysis.
Actually, it effectively will prevent it because no one will
bother. There's a great essay by Schneier on that subject.
Perry
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