Re: migration paradigm (was: Is PGP broken?)

[Bram Cohen]

On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, David Honig wrote:

> Is there a reason not to use AES block cipher in a hashing mode
> if you need a secure digest of some data? 

Hashing modes of block ciphers require a re-key for every block, and hence
are really, really slow.

-Bram Cohen