The Pure Crypto Project's Hash Function

Rich Salz rsalz at datapower.com
Sat May 3 07:33:39 EDT 2003


> The project's intention is to provide
> encryption and signing with the smallest amount of readable
> code possible using only one basic crypto primitive,
> a function ModExp(A,B,C) which calculates A**B mod C.

That seems like a bad design goal.

Isn't it better to have clean implementations of known algorithms that
have been widely understood and studied by the cryptographic community?
Smallest lines of code doesn't imply "most secure."
	/r$



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