Re: [cryptography] [zfs] SHA-3 winner announced

2012-10-03 Thread CodesInChaos
In that you see the selection of Keccak, focusing more on its high security margin, and new defenses against existing known types of attacks. Is the margin really larger than the margin of Skein or Blake? And CPUs are getting faster all the time The problem is the amount of data we work with

Re: [cryptography] [zfs] SHA-3 winner announced

2012-10-03 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [cryptography] [zfs] SHA-3 winner announced

2012-10-03 Thread Nico Williams
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 7:41 AM, David McGrew (mcgrew) mcg...@cisco.com wrote: Are the requirements for the security of ZFS and the use of cryptography in that filesystem documented anywhere? https://blogs.oracle.com/bonwick/entry/zfs_end_to_end_data mentions a Merkle tree of checksums, where