Re: Loop-AES and Twofish on 64-bit CPU

[Christian Kujau <evil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 29 May 2006, Gisle Sælensminde wrote:
> (I'm Gisle, not Gisele)

Sorry for that.

> case" is often a sign of lack of knowledge in cryptography. The cipher is 
> probably the least likely part to be broken, and doubling it will double the 
> CPU usage for little gain in security.

I can't argue with that, full ACK here.

> Maybe not because the double encryption, but with _that_ advertisement I 
> would know it was snake oil. ;-)

Did I mention that's available in "blue" and "shiny silver"? ;))

> any other part of the system may have flaws. An important principle in the 
> design of such systems, is to keep them as simple as possible, but not 
> simpler. That makes them easier to evaluate.

Ah, now I understand what you were up to, thanks.

Christian.
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