What do you folks think about Anubis [1] ? I don't understand the maths, but I would *like* to think that Rijndael's positive results (mostly, its lack of negative results) would apply to Anubis while Rijndael's negatives (such as the hypothetical algebraic solution) wouldn't.
Regards, Zooko http://zooko.com/ ^-- under re-construction: some new stuff, some broken links [1] http://planeta.terra.com.br/informatica/paulobarreto/AnubisPage.html > AES has gotten a lot of attention, and right now, it's the high-prestige > target. (Among other things, it was clearly a front-runner in the AES > process from the beginning, and all of us who'd designed other algorithms > spent a lot of time trying to beat up on it.) Blowfish has been around > longer, but has probably had fewer people spend lots of time trying to > break it. The still-unresolved question is whether those equation-solving > attacks can really be used against AES, and there doesn't seem to be anyone > who's completely confident of the answer to that question. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]