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

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bram Cohen)
Tue Dec 5 18:14:36 2000

Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 14:47:50 -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, Bram Cohen wrote:
> 
> [SHA-2 looks pretty good. What's your problem with it? --Perry]

It's slow. It's fast enough for most applications, but then again so is
3DES - either you care about speed or you don't, and if you do, SHA2 just
doesn't rank up there with Rijndael.

-Bram Cohen



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