Secure Science issues preview of their upcoming block cipher

[Lance James]

Adam Shostack wrote:
> Really?  How does one go about proving the security of a block cipher?
> 
> My understanding is that you, and others, perform attacks against it,
> and see how it holds up.  Many of the very best minds out there
> attacked AES, so for your new CS2 cipher to be "provably just as
> secure as AES-128," all those people would have had to have spent as
> much time and energy as they did on AES.  That strikes me as unlikely,
> there's a lot more interest in hash functions today.

We will be proposing 2 hashes as well.

> 
> Adam
> 
> PS: I've added the cryptography mail list to this.  Some of the folks
> over there may be interested in your claims.
> 
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 05:00:25PM -0800, BugTraq wrote:
> | Secure Science is offering a preview of one of the 3 ciphers they will 
> | be publishing througout the year. The CS2-128 cipher is a 128-bit block 
> | cipher with a 128 bit key. This cipher is proposed as an alternative 
> | hardware-based cipher to AES, being that it is more efficient in 
> | hardware, simpler to implement, and provably just as secure as AES-128.
> | 
> | http://www.securescience.net/ciphers/csc2/
> | 
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