Re: NIST announces Draft Requirements and Evaluation Criteria for New Hash Algorithms

[Shu-jen Chang <shu-jen.chang@xxxxxxxx>]

Thank you for pointing out the mistake. It was correct in the file that
we sent out, but somehow got messed up in the final publication. Sorry
about that.

Shu-jen


At 01:48 PM 1/23/2007, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There is an obvious typo:
>
> "A.3 The algorithm must support
> 224, 256, 384, and 512-bit message
> digests, and must support a maximum
> message length of at least 264 bits."
>
> Probably it should be:
>
> "A.3 The algorithm must support
> 224, 256, 384, and 512-bit message
> digests, and must support a maximum
> message length of at least 2^64 bits."
>
> (Usual copy paste error from Word ...)
>
> Regards,
> Danilo!