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Perry E. Metzger (perry@piermont.com)
Wed, 24 Jun 1998 11:14:48 -0400
> > Do you know the distributions restrictions on SAFER? If I do manage to
> > get the whole thing working, I'd like the patches to be usable by the
> > Linux kernel team.. which would mean that commercial use is fine.
>
> You can try TEA (http://vader.brad.ac.uk/tea/tea.shtml). It's simple and
> fast.
It has also been broken, hasn't it?
SAFER doesn't strike me as a good idea, but TEA *really* doesn't
strike me as a good idea.
> Anybody knows about TEA cryptoanalisys (I already read the paper about
> modified TEA)?. It´s safe enough?. I'm developing a distributed DB for
> ESNET (a spanish IRC network) and it uses TEA for nick registration and
> database integrity check.
If you aren't pushing huge amounts of data, why not just stick to 3DES
or something similar?
Perry
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