[ISN] A gaggle of new ciphers

Forwarded From: "Jay D. Dyson" <jdyson@techreports.jpl.nasa.gov>

Courtesy of Cryptography List.  Good stuff!

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Date: 19 Jun 1998 15:32:16 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Subject: a gaggle of new ciphers


0) The final final deadline on AES submissions ends today. The AES
   effort is shaping up to be rather interesting -- several intriguing
   ciphers have been submitted

   http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/aes/aes_home.htm

1) Bruce Schneier announces Counterpane's AES submission, Twofish:

   http://www.counterpane.com/twofish.html

   Twofish looks interesting.

2) Ron Rivest and his team from RSA DSI announce their AES submission, 
   RC6, which is a very clever looking algorithm, apparently highly
   resistant to attack, and certainly extraordinary in its simplicity.

   http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/publications.html

3) Ross Anderson, Eli Biham and Lars Knudsen's AES candidate is
   Serpent. I haven't yet studied it.

   http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/

4) I just came across an algorithm called "MISTY1" designed by Matsui
   & Ohta and published as an internet draft. It appears to
   be completely resistant to differential and linear
   cryptanalysis. It seems to have some interesting properties. (To my 
   knowledge, it is *not* an AES candidate.)

   http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ohta-misty1desc-00.txt

Perry

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