[Cryptography] Sha3

David Johnston dj at deadhat.com
Fri Oct 4 00:27:47 EDT 2013


On 10/1/2013 2:34 AM, Ray Dillinger wrote:
> What I don't understand here is why the process of selecting a 
> standard algorithm for cryptographic primitives is so highly focused 
> on speed. ~

What makes you think Keccak is faster than the alternatives that were 
not selected? My implementations suggest otherwise.
I thought the main motivation for selecting Keccak was "Sponge good".

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/attachments/20131003/49883c5f/attachment.html>


More information about the cryptography mailing list