In <>, on 03/06/98 at 05:51 PM, Jon Callas <jon@xxxxxxx> said: >I have a couple of questions about the algorithms specified in the next >draft: >Elliptic Curve: I've added identifiers for EC-encryption and ECDSA. Is >this enough? >X9.42: Should we add it? >ROT-N: The reason this is here is to give an algorithm that all the >proper transforms can be done on -- IV construction, encoding engines, >etc. -- but won't be export controlled in a reference implementation. >This would allow an international team of people to build and test the >reference implementation. However, it has to be defined in more detail >than that to really be interoperable. I think it's both useful and >amusing, but I'm not so committed to it that I've actually done the work >to spec it out. Someone who believes in having it needs to write up the >details. If no one does so, I'm removing it. >Haval: Similar to the above, someone who wants Haval has to decide how >many rounds and the length. In Washington, we agreed that it should be at >least as strong as SHA-1 or RIPEMD160. Someone with an opinion should >state it, or it goes. >Blowfish: Ditto. We need the variant specified. It would be nice if there were pointers to reference implementations of these algorithms so we can make sure that everyone is singing from the same score. :) -- --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii/esecure.html --------------------------------------------------------------- Tag-O-Matic: OS/2: Windows done RIGHT!
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