Re: A free idea about ideas...

From: Bartosz Zoltak (QPbzoltak_at_vmpcfunction.com*(without)
Date: 03/27/04 

Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 09:13:32 +0100

Tom St Denis wrote:

> Well, problem with your logic is not everyone is trying to invent
the
> next "wonder-pad 2000".

I didn't say that they are...

> > This partly came to me when I look at my Tail-MAC - scheme of
giving a
> > MAC to a stream cipher. The area is potentially interesting, not
many
> > MAC proposals for stream ciphers, it looks simple, works fast,
looks
> > secure, but I haven't heard much fedback on it.
>
> What have you proved about it that makes me want to look at it?

You sound very proud here...

> Anyways, you seem to be mistaken that all these crypto conferences
are
> about ciphers only.

I never said they are...

> There is a heck of a
> lot more to cryptography than some streamcipher [for which you can't
> prove much of anything including the period!!!].

Can you? Even if - proving the period for this cipher is, in my view,
a minor-importancy issue.

Bartosz

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