The Pure Crypto Project's Hash Function

[Ralf Senderek]

On Sat, 3 May 2003, Rich Salz wrote:

> Users are not capabable of evaluating cryptography.

Don't blame the users! It's the complexity problem, I try to tackle it.

> Very simple:  known to be cryptographically secure.  SHA-1 is good.  Your
> invention is bad.

So everything new must be bad, because it isn't "known to be .. secure"?

> End of discussion (from me).

I can live with that.

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