Re: HAVAL - But which variant (and what OID?)

[Jim Gillogly <jim@xxxxxxx>]

Hal Finney writes:

> I can't find an OID assignment for HAVAL.  Peter Gutmann has a long list
> of known security related OIDs in his dumpasn1.cfg file, but it does not
> list HAVAL.  You might direct email to the author and ask if he knows
> of an OID assignment.  I suspect we would need a family of OIDs, one for
> each length/passes combination.

I wrote to the author -- he's interested but unfamiliar with the OID
process.  Is it the case that one of us can simply define and declare
a set of HAVAL variants that meets our needs?

tzeruch asks:
> And is there an implementation without copyright or patent problems?

Yes, Paulo Barreto has written a public domain implementation of HAVAL.
It's at http://ds.dial.pipex.com/george.barwood/crypto.htm
and is apparently correct, since the author, Yuliang Zheng, acknowledges
that Barreto found and reported an error in the reference
implementation.

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	Jim Gillogly
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