Re: TEA analysis
From: David Eather (eather_at_tpg.com.au)
Date: 02/29/04
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Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 13:22:24 +1000
Sorry to bother you. I googled for attacks on TEA and found the situation
unchanged from a few years ago - a related key attack and the TEA key
schedule only providing 126 bits of entropy. What attacks are you referring
to?
"mike3" <mike4ty4@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1d54b7e4.0402271513.5bd1fb7f@posting.google.com...
> "Derjo Phar" <not@available.com> wrote in message
news:<YZs%b.77704$Wa.44826@news-server.bigpond.net.au>...
> > Hi All,
> > has anyone any opinions and/or facts about how useful the TEA is?
> >
> > In which situations is it worth using?
> >
>
> Nope.
>
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> > In which situations should one avoid using it?
> >
>
> Everything.
>
>
> > What variants are there for it?
> Crap.
>
>
> _Nobody_ uses TEA. Why? It's too weak. You can crack it. It's slow.
> And it's poorly written. It's been DEMONSTRATED that it's _not_
> cryptographically secure. Sure, you might send some casual email with
> it, but it probably won't dissuade the Government from reading it.
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