Re: "Alien" cryptanalysis

From: Douglas A. Gwyn (DAGwyn_at_null.net)
Date: 05/19/03 

Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 17:15:50 -0400

Tom St Denis wrote:
> Also I don't quite see what your point is. The "add two full cycles"
> rule is not a hard scientific process. Its a "lets be cautious and add
> some padding".

The point is, it's not any sort of "scientific process.
It's not much different from voodoo.

Indeed, for certain designs increasing the number of
rounds past a certain point actually weakens the system.

This general issue has been discussed previously in this
newsgroup.

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