[5318] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Proposal (was Summary re: /dev/random)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Damien Miller)
Tue Aug 3 11:36:57 1999
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 14:09:22 +1000 (EST)
From: Damien Miller <dmiller@ilogic.com.au>
To: Sandy Harris <sandy.harris@sympatico.ca>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <37A4BAAF.8DD21ECF@sympatico.ca>
On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Sandy Harris wrote:
> The question, then is how best to make it into
> a two-stage design. Mainly, choose a block cipher
> and modify the hashing to suit.
You will never get a block cipher in the kernel because of export
restrictions.
What is wrong with SHA1?
Regards,
Damien Miller
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