[66701] in Cypherpunks
Re: Mitsubishi MISTY LSI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz)
Sat Sep 28 00:54:15 1996
From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz
To: cypherpunks@toad.com, frantz@netcom.com
Reply-To: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz
X-Charge-To: pgut001
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 16:41:46 (NZST)
>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?
It was developed by a team lead by Mitsuru Matsui and has been subject to
fairly intense analysis, although not by non-Mitsubishi people AFAIK. In any
case it's not the usual snake oil. When I last talked to someone from
Mitsubishi who was working on Misty I tried to convince them to make details
available online, you could try something like www.melco.co.jp to see if
there's anything available.
Peter.
