[Cryptography] BLAKE2: "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" Than MD5
tpb-crypto at laposte.net
tpb-crypto at laposte.net
Mon Mar 24 11:16:34 EDT 2014
> Message du 24/03/14 01:47
> De : "Bill Frantz"
> In the area of hashes, I feel less confidence. I'm not convinced
> that the analysis techniques are as mature, and I'm not sure we
> even have a good handle on the right questions to ask. When AES
> was selected, some people suggested that the really paranoid
> could used super encryption with each of the five finalists,
> each with its own key. I haven't heard of anyone actually using
> this suggestion -- even in hardware there would be many gate
> delays before the first block came out of the pipeline, but the
> combination is probably at least as secure as the strongest of
> the five.
Some of my customers demand such solutions, shouldn't we develop a protocol for piggy-backing crypto over crypto? It would be a cool thing.
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