Re: TEA (was Re: filesystem encryption)

Perry E. Metzger (perry@piermont.com)
Thu, 25 Jun 1998 12:02:12 -0400

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And how much analysis has been done on Square, compared with, say,
3DES?

Paulo Barreto writes:
> At 17:56 1998.06.24 +0000, Jesús Cea Avión wrote:
>
> >I need a *simple*, *lightning* fast crypt, without setup overhead.
>
> Since you didn't stressed the setup overhead as you did for simplicity and
> speed, I'd like to propose Square
> <http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~rijmen/square>. It's one of the fastest
> block ciphers around (take a look at
> http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~bosselae/fast.html), and the setup overhead
> is very small. It's also exceptionally scalable (probably more than Peter
> Gutmann reports for Safer -- smart card code for Square fits half a
> kilobyte), and the design is quite simple (if you know what a Galois field
> is).
>
> Paulo Barreto.
>
>

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