Re: MD6 withdrawn from SHA-3 competition

2009-07-05 Thread "Hal Finney"
Rivest: > Thus, while MD6 appears to be a robust and secure cryptographic > hash algorithm, and has much merit for multi-core processors, > our inability to provide a proof of security for a > reduced-round (and possibly tweaked) version of MD6 against > differential a

Re: MD6 withdrawn from SHA-3 competition

2009-07-05 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 11:49 PM -0400 7/3/09, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: >Here's the essential paragraph: > > Thus, while MD6 appears to be a robust and secure cryptographic > hash algorithm, and has much merit for multi-core processors, > our inability to provide a proof of security for a > red