A paper of mine just went up on http://eprint.iacr.org/ It has some ideas that I hope are new, I think are good, and I know are unorthodox. I'm well aware of the usual fate of such innovations, especially from amateurs.
If anyone would like a break from looking at new hashes, perhaps they could have a look. Number 2008/473 Title Exploring Cipherspace: Combining stream ciphers and block ciphers Abstract: This paper looks at the possibility of combining a block cipher and a stream cipher to get a strong hybrid cipher. It includes two specific proposals for combining AES-128 and RC4-128 to get a cipher that takes a 256-bit key and is significantly faster than AES-256, and arguably more secure. One is immune to algebraic attacks. -- Sandy Harris, Quanzhou, Fujian, China --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]