[Cryptography] Speculation about Baton Block Cipher

Ryan Carboni ryacko at gmail.com
Thu Aug 13 02:37:30 EDT 2015


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BATON

I think in modern terms, according to the above wikipedia page:

BATON is a family of authenticated encryption ciphers, with a variable
block width, and accepts a tweak as an input?

To think that since 1995 the NSA has a cipher that the civilian
cryptographic community is on the verge of accepting!

And this is before the AES competition as well!

It's only been 20 years anyway.


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