[Cryptography] the world's worst hash function

Christian Huitema huitema at huitema.net
Thu Jan 31 18:56:59 EST 2019


On 1/29/2019 4:57 PM, Grant Schultz wrote:
> On 1/29/2019 11:00 AM, Peter Gutman wrote:
>> MerdeMerdeHash uses the slowest and most unpredictable data-manipulation
>> instructions available, combined with endless data dependencies and
>> pipeline
>> stalls.
>
> Regrettably, there is no NIST competition for you to enter this
> excellent algorithm into.

Peter, your implementation being slow is one thing. But do you have a
proof that some smart implementation would not be able to fling the
merde much faster, and land on the same shit by a shorter path?

-- Christian Huitema




More information about the cryptography mailing list