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a gaggle of new ciphers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Fri Jun 19 15:33:31 1998
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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: 19 Jun 1998 15:32:16 -0400
0) The final final deadline on AES submissions ends today. The AES
effort is shaping up to be rather interesting -- several intriguing
ciphers have been submitted
http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/aes/aes_home.htm
1) Bruce Schneier announces Counterpane's AES submission, Twofish:
http://www.counterpane.com/twofish.html
Twofish looks interesting.
2) Ron Rivest and his team from RSA DSI announce their AES submission,
RC6, which is a very clever looking algorithm, apparently highly
resistant to attack, and certainly extraordinary in its simplicity.
http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/publications.html
3) Ross Anderson, Eli Biham and Lars Knudsen's AES candidate is
Serpent. I haven't yet studied it.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/
4) I just came across an algorithm called "MISTY1" designed by Matsui
& Ohta and published as an internet draft. It appears to
be completely resistant to differential and linear
cryptanalysis. It seems to have some interesting properties. (To my
knowledge, it is *not* an AES candidate.)
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ohta-misty1desc-00.txt
Perry
