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Re: Rijndael & NTRU
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Alten)
Thu Oct 5 10:30:28 2000
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Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 06:25:34 -0700
To: Ian Grigg <iang@systemics.com>, Vin McLellan <vin@shore.net>
From: Alex Alten <Alten@Home.Com>
Cc: "Paulo S. L. M. Barreto" <paulo.barreto@terra.com.br>, coderpunks@toad.com,
cryptography@c2.net
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At 10:51 AM 10/4/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>Vin McLellan :
>
>> I noticed, Paulo, that you were one of those who were
>> (unsuccessfully) nagging NIST for information about their reaction to the
>> Hitachi IP claims.
>
>I think NIST is right to ignore this particular piece of stupidity
>and concentrate on more important things... Like SHA-2 ...
>
Maybe NIST should have a public competition for SHA-2. In some ways I think
a good, fast hash is harder to design than AES, especially with the modern
microinstruction pipelined cpu's, not mention to the Transmeta cpu
architecture.
- Alex
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