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Re: eRevolution: "Europe shuns its own Net cipher"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Honig)
Sun Dec 3 16:46:21 2000
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Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 10:56:39 -0800
To: =?iso-8859-2?Q?Pawe=B3_Krawczyk?= <kravietz@ceti.pl>,
"R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
From: David Honig <honig@sprynet.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
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At 04:45 PM 12/3/00 +0100, =?iso-8859-2?Q?Pawe=B3_Krawczyk?= wrote:
>shows that the project has much broader scope than AES. Block cipher is
>only one of ~10 topics covered by NESSIE.
The great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
A block cipher can be used for stream ciphers, secure macs, etc.,
Its not clear that NESSIE isn't a geopolitical Not Invented Here,
much like Japan's rejection of AES. Well, not literally "not invented here",
but Not Selected Here.
Not that y'all shouldn't be paranoid about the U.S., but still.. :-)
It really doesn't matter. Security is all key mismanagement and
loser interface, organizational opsec much more than algorithm.
Euros can reinvent the wheel, car safety is so much more than tires.
My 2 pfennings.
