Hi Bill-- On Fri 2018-01-05 10:52:01 -0800, William Bathurst wrote:
> We have open sourced our work in regards to integrating the Speck Cipher > with OpenSSL. Basic information about this cipher can be found here. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speck_(cipher) > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speck_%28cipher%29> > > SPECK is a lightweight block ciphers each of which comes in a variety of > widths and key sizes and is targeted towards resource constrained > devices and environments. This implementation is currently implemented > using the 128 and 256 block sizes. Thanks for your work on this, and for reporting on it here. Out of curiosity, who is the "We" involved here? The changeset history appears to be a bit ambivalent about the authorship, based on edits to the README itself: https://github.com/m2mi/openssl_speck/commit/4a67a5644ff5c56956063d858033585f57686d1e https://github.com/m2mi/openssl_speck/commit/8d619beffa3bd1c221fc6a7946b9aa7a00774019 > 1) Community interest in such a lightweight cipher. I'm not convinced that the OpenSSL project should encourage the adoption of SPECK, given the general level of distrust around the algorithm: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/09/iso_rejects_nsa.html My understanding is that the algorithm designers and primary advocates have not been particularly forthcoming with their design goals, and their reputation is mixed, at best. Regards, --dkg
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