The Pure Crypto Project's Hash Function

[Rich Salz]

> > Isn't it better to have clean implementations of known algorithms that
> > have been widely understood and studied by the cryptographic community?
>
> That's why RSA is used in the project.

But you "invented" a new hashing mechanism.  Why do you think the industry
has settled on RSA/SHA1 as a standard?

I also forgot to ask if we haven't learned enough from PGP: interop is
important.  What's your compelling reason to throw that away?

I think this is a real bad approach.
        /r$


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