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Re: The Pure Crypto Project's Hash Function
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralf Senderek)
Sun May 4 09:52:57 2003
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Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 08:57:15 +0200 (CEST)
From: Ralf Senderek <ralf@senderek.de>
To: tom st denis <tomstdenis@yahoo.com>
Cc: <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
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On Sat, 3 May 2003, tom st denis wrote:
> As to making their own hash I too would have to strongly disagree with
> that. You really ought to either design a cipher/hash or design a
> cryptosystem.
If there was a hash based on ModExp() with a long tradition of
scrutiny like RSA for twenty years I surely would have taken it.
I am not keen on inventing new things, but I don't accept that we
leave the user alone with the complexitiy problem in a fatal dependence
on code he has not even the chance to understand. And I don't mean
sha1 in particular but the whole cryptosystem.
Does the list know of any hash based on Modexp with a better reputation
than mine, I'd be happy to know.
Ralf.
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