[8238] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: migration paradigm (was: Is PGP broken?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bram Cohen)
Sun Dec 10 03:49:41 2000
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 10:23:20 -0800 (PST)
From: Bram Cohen <bram@gawth.com>
To: David Honig <honig@sprynet.com>
Cc: William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com>, cryptography@c2.net
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On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, David Honig wrote:
> Is there a reason not to use AES block cipher in a hashing mode
> if you need a secure digest of some data?
Hashing modes of block ciphers require a re-key for every block, and hence
are really, really slow.
-Bram Cohen
