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Subject: Re: Rijndael & NTRU
From: Alex Alten (Altenhome.com)
Date: Thu Oct 05 2000 - 08:25:34 CDT


At 10:51 AM 10/4/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>Vin McLellan :
>
>> I noticed, Paulo, that you were one of those who were
>> (unsuccessfully) nagging NIST for information about their reaction to the
>> Hitachi IP claims.
>
>I think NIST is right to ignore this particular piece of stupidity
>and concentrate on more important things... Like SHA-2 ...
>

Maybe NIST should have a public competition for SHA-2. In some ways I think
a good, fast hash is harder to design than AES, especially with the modern
microinstruction pipelined cpu's, not mention to the Transmeta cpu
architecture.

- Alex

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