Re: Salsa20 hashing



On 2006-09-26, xmath <xmath.news@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Does anyone see an obvious problem with this particular mode

Yes. The diagonal constants in Salsa20 are important. There are many
other sensible choices of constants, but the constants should never be
replaced by attacker-controlled variables.

---D. J. Bernstein, Professor, Mathematics, Statistics,
and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago
.