[104781] in Cypherpunks
Re: No Subject
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Motyka)
Wed Oct 28 17:03:05 1998
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 13:29:56 -0800
From: Michael Motyka <mmotyka@lsil.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Michael Motyka <mmotyka@lsil.com>
> Shift registers are cracked.
>
OK. But if used prior to another cipher wouldn't it substantially
complicate the job of, say, looking for English letter distributions in
a test decryption?
I like the other explanation of the hash isolating the key bits from the
whitening operation and adequately serving the same purpose as another
source.
> Traditional block ciphers are expensive bleach, take note.
> Unnecessary.
>
Expensive how? In terms of CPU time?
What alternative makes traditional block ciphers obsolete?
