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Re: The Pure Crypto Project's Hash Function

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralf Senderek)
Sat May 3 12:42:28 2003

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Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 17:28:24 +0200 (CEST)
From: Ralf Senderek <ralf@senderek.de>
To: Rich Salz <rsalz@datapower.com>
Cc: "cryptography@metzdowd.com" <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0305030732080.18151-100000@smtp.datapower.com>

On Sat, 3 May 2003, Rich Salz wrote:

> Isn't it better to have clean implementations of known algorithms that
> have been widely understood and studied by the cryptographic community?

That's why RSA is used in the project.


> Smallest lines of code doesn't imply "most secure."
> 	/r$

The goal is of course : "most secure" AND "most clear" AND "smallest code"

Ralf.


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