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Re: migration paradigm (was: Is PGP broken?)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bram Cohen)
Tue Dec 5 14:22:19 2000

Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 23:19:17 -0800 (PST)
From: Bram Cohen <bram@gawth.com>
To: William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
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On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, William Allen Simpson wrote:

> We could use the excuse of AES implementation to foster a move to a 
> new common denominator.

AES is silly without an equivalently good secure hash function, which we
don't have right now.

[SHA-2 looks pretty good. What's your problem with it? --Perry]

We already have too many common denominators. I'm waiting for something to
stop looking like an experiment to actually start advocating use of a
particular crypto application.

-Bram Cohen



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