[42498] in Cypherpunks
Re: MD4-derived hash functions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark)
Sun Oct 29 22:10:16 1995
From: Mark <mark@lochard.com.au>
To: daw@quito.CS.Berkeley.EDU (David A Wagner)
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 13:53:05 +1000 (EET)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199510290028.UAA12628@book.hks.net> from "David A Wagner" at Oct 28, 95 08:28:11 pm
>The conclusion to take away from this is simple: double encryption
>doesn't give you much extra security over single encryption. Don't
>use double encryption.
That doesnt make sense. If one accepts that double encryption is securer than
single encryption, wether marginally or twice as secure, why not use it?
I would rather stand behind a steel door and a wooden door than a steel door
alone if anyone was shooting rounds at me.
Cheers,
Mark
mark@lochard.com.au
