Status of attacks on AES?

[Marcos el Ruptor]

>> http://defectoscopy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3
>>
>> http://defectoscopy.com/results.html
>> and
>> http://defectoscopy.com/background.html
>>
> Are there any peer-reviewed descriptions of your technique?  Right now,
> all that site seems to have -- and forgive me if I've missed a link --
> is a set of simple assertions about various ciphers, plus a fairly vague
> background page.  Put another way, and I hate to be this blunt, is there
> any reason to think your results are correct and/or meaningful?

Good, bad, right, wrong, correct, incorrect, meaningful, meaningless... Who 
knows? Don't ask us. We are simply trying to contribute something new that 
we strongly believe in, that may not be much, but that may also turn out to 
be great. It's a very new site with too few results and is too early to 
judge. It seems that some people liked our project and decided to advertise 
it already and are showing some interest in it. We did not expect it to 
attract any attention just yet and we did not want to promote it until there 
were results for a few more dozen ciphers and hash functions.

I am sure there will be as many opinions as there are assholes as Klint 
Eastwood says, but it doesn't change the facts about our tests. As we say on 
the web site, if you want proofs, send us your challenge ciphers. We love 
them. But we are very reluctant to participate in polemic debates. Our tests 
are controversial enough and their results speak for themselves. Wait till 
we publish our results for a few more ciphers and soon you'll see how all 
the new designs measure up way before any attacks breaking them are found. 
We are not academics struggling to prove their academic qualification and 
not a corporation struggling to market its product, so if you don't mind, 
we'll leave you believing whatever you want to believe and just get back to 
work.

Ruptor

PS: Constructive productive positive contributions are also welcome. 


[Moderator's note: Marcos el Ruptor perhaps does not understand the
concept of peer review and may be unfamiliar with the fact that there
is a large existing literature in the field. Perhaps that should say
something in itself. --Perry]
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