[Cryptography] Simon, Speck and ISO
Hanno Böck
hanno at hboeck.de
Wed Oct 22 05:28:40 EDT 2014
Am Tue, 21 Oct 2014 22:16:13 -0000
schrieb dj at deadhat.com:
> Today the NSA proposed that Simon and Speck be added the the ISO
> JTC1/SC27 approved ciphers spec.
That sounds interesting, can you give some more background on this?
I'm probably not the only one who has never heard of JTC1/SC27 before.
Wikipedia tells me this is located at the DIN in germany.
What's the role of these approved ciphers? Is anyone bound to
support / use them?
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