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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:15:22
bram (bram@gawth.com)
Wed, 28 Oct 1998 09:22:14 -0800 (PST)
On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Bill Stewart wrote:
> Other people have commented that IDEA has patent problems.
> 3DES is slow, but everybody trusts it, so if you've got small enough data
> it's probably ok. There's the minor annoyance that 168-bit keys are
> longer than 160-bit SHA1 hashes, so you'll need to scrounge some bits :-)
In the RIPEMD-160 spec it gives a variant which churns out 320 bits but
has the same level of security (isn't any more collision resistant than
the original.) In practice the lack of increase in security shouldn't be a
problem since 160 bits is more than enough entropy to power the entire
world for many years to come.
-Bram
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:15:22