On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 19:17:22 +0000 unknown <unknown@pgpru.com> wrote:
On Tue, 9 Oct 2012 00:28:38 -0400 Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> wrote:
So to be concrete, let me suggest a few modes of operation. I believe I'm competent to implement these:
I think (IMHO) Keccak makes many (most?) symmetric encryption modes obsolete in the near future.
What I wrote about Keccak one year ago: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2011-November/003020.html Now Keccak is SHA-3. I hope Keccak will soon replace everything: from old messy code in the entropy accumulator and distillator in /dev/random to AES-CTR-HMAC encryption in SSL. From complex RSA-OAEP padding mode in signatures to exotic tweaked block-ciphers. Keccak is simpler to implement without mistakes and easier to design a protocols with solid security proofs. It's universal by generic inner structure properties without need any special additional modules or switches.