[66524] in Cypherpunks
Re: Mitsubishi MISTY LSI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Thu Sep 26 00:09:39 1996
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 20:55:03 -0700
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
> Nikkei English News, 24 September 1996.
>
> [Mitsubishi] fabricated the chip as a gate array using a
> 0.5 micron CMOS process and its own proprietary
> encryption algorithm MISTY. Operating at a maximum
> input/output speed of 40 megahertz, the chip can handle
> 32 bits per clock cycle.
Does anyone have a reason not to consider this algorithm snake oil? e.g.:
Was it developed by a well known cryptographer?
Has it been vetted by someone/some organization with reputation?
I other words, why should we trust it?
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