Re: Cryptographic hash function for small microcontroller

From: David Wagner (daw_at_taverner.cs.berkeley.edu)
Date: 03/25/04 

Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 17:09:05 +0000 (UTC)

Alex wrote:
>I think you could benefit from looking at some papers on security in
>sensor networks, such as SPINS paper on the project done in Berkeley
>and others.

Yes, those are useful resources. Not only have I already read
(and benefitted from) many papers on that subject, I've also written
a few of them myself.

>I believe in fact several papers suggested using RC5 in theory.
>Whether you can use it in practice, and how it relates to patents, is
>another question :)

Yes, here at Berkeley have experience with both RC5 and Skipjack.
Skipjack has several advantages over RC5, which is why I mentioned
Skipjack in my post.

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