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Re: Nullsoft's WASTE communication system

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Zooko)
Sun Jun 1 16:43:32 2003

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To: John Kelsey <kelsey.j@ix.netcom.com>
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	Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>, cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: Message from John Kelsey <kelsey.j@ix.netcom.com> 
   of "Sun, 01 Jun 2003 10:51:14 EDT." <5.2.0.9.0.20030601104721.00a05490@pop.ix.netcom.com> 
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2003 16:31:57 -0400
From: Zooko <zooko@zooko.com>


What do you folks think about Anubis [1] ?

I don't understand the maths, but I would *like* to think that Rijndael's 
positive results (mostly, its lack of negative results) would apply to Anubis 
while Rijndael's negatives (such as the hypothetical algebraic solution) 
wouldn't.

Regards,

Zooko

http://zooko.com/
         ^-- under re-construction: some new stuff, some broken links

[1] http://planeta.terra.com.br/informatica/paulobarreto/AnubisPage.html

> AES has gotten a lot of attention, and right now, it's the high-prestige 
> target.  (Among other things, it was clearly a front-runner in the AES 
> process from the beginning, and all of us who'd designed other algorithms 
> spent a lot of time trying to beat up on it.)  Blowfish has been around 
> longer, but has probably had fewer people spend lots of time trying to 
> break it.  The still-unresolved question is whether those equation-solving 
> attacks can really be used against AES, and there doesn't seem to be anyone 
> who's completely confident of the answer to that question.

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