Re: [newbie] overviewing the chaos

[markus reichelt <ml@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Jan LÃhr <jluehr@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> After sticking my nose into the presented document's I'd like to know:
> What about "Hering"? Is the implementation broken? Does loop-aes implement 
> hering?

it's a tweakable block cipher

last time I heard of the cipher it was soon to be published, but that
was in February 2004. AFAIK the cipher doesn't suffer the weaknesses
of the mainline kernel crypto stuff. I don't know any recent news
about it, and last time I contacted the author I got no reply. It
seems he's quite busy.

- -- 
Bastard Administrator in $hell

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFBfsiALMyTO8Kj/uQRAgSdAJ9bhMHEp81XA3P01J0wL5U7ivNOyACdFiWt
wdPHtrSHEfNDaUkqGekV8Y4=
=q65B
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

-
Linux-crypto:  cryptography in and on the Linux system
Archive:       http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/