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Re: MD6 withdrawn from SHA-3 competition
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joseph Ashwood)
Fri Jul 3 17:18:41 2009
From: "Joseph Ashwood" <ashwood@msn.com>
To: <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
In-Reply-To: <8763ec9f8e.fsf@snark.cb.piermont.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 20:51:47 -0700
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Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 4:05 PM
Subject: MD6 withdrawn from SHA-3 competition
> Also from Bruce Schneier, a report that MD6 was withdrawn from the SHA-3
> competition because of performance considerations.
I find this disappointing. With the rate of destruction of primitives in any
such competition I would've liked to see them let it stay until it is either
broken or at least until the second round. A quick glance at the SHA-3 zoo
and you won't see much left with no attacks. It would be different if it was
yet another M-D, using AES as a foundation, blah, blah, blah, but MD6 is a
truly unique and interesting design.
I hope the report is wrong, and in keeping that hope alive, the MD6 page has
no statement about the withdrawl.
Joe
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