Re: "Alien" cryptanalysis

From: JohnTromaville (johntromaville_at_aol.com)
Date: 05/19/03 

Date: 19 May 2003 19:27:54 GMT

> For one
>thing, Skipjack is exceptionally elegant, which certainly inclines one to
>suspect unusually deep knowledge on the part of its creators

by elegant do you mean simplified, ie not complex or do you mean something
else?

It does look to me that skipjack can be implemented very efficiently in
hardware, I don't understand crypto attacks at all but I do implement a lot in
hardware and Skipjack looks to be really nice in hardware.

Trom

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