Bill Stewart wrote:
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 7:30 AM
To: Cryptography List
Subject: Re: the skein hash function
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So if Skein becomes popular, ASIC accelerator hardware
may be practical for higher-speed applications.
I see another strong point for Skein:
Deterministically
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A quick google-look at ASICs showed a number in the range of 300K-20M gates,
so hash-trees could probably get speedups of up to 20-100x if you can keep
from becoming input-speed-bound. The 300K chips were about $6, 5M at $50 and
350MHz, which is somewhat
Eugen Leitl and Stephan Somogyi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
about the Skein hash function announcement.
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/10/the_skein_hash.html?1
http://www.schneier.com/skein.html
One thing I noticed on a first read-through was
a discussion of speed for ASICs vs
