Re: MD6 withdrawn from SHA-3 competition

2009-07-07 Thread Chen Ke-Fei Lin
At 10:39 AM -0700 7/4/09, Hal Finney wrote: But how many other hash function candidates would also be excluded if such a stringent criterion were applied? Or turning it around, if NIST demanded a proof of immunity to differential attacks as Rivest proposed, how many candidates have offered such a

Re: MD6 withdrawn from SHA-3 competition

2009-07-07 Thread Josh Rubin
Paul Hoffman wrote: At 10:39 AM -0700 7/4/09, Hal Finney wrote: But how many other hash function candidates would also be excluded if such a stringent criterion were applied? Or turning it around, if NIST demanded a proof of immunity to differential attacks as Rivest proposed, how many