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Now From Bruce Schneier, the Skein Hash Function

Posted by timothy on from the renaissance-man dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Bruce Schneier and company have created a new hash function called Skein. From his blog entry: 'NIST is holding a competition to replace the SHA family of hash functions, which have been increasingly under attack. (I wrote about an early NIST hash workshop here.) Skein is our submission (myself and seven others: Niels Ferguson, Stefan Lucks, Doug Whiting, Mihir Bellare, Tadayoshi Kohno, Jon Callas, and Jesse Walker). Here's the paper."

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  1. Good to see Bruce back by CRCulver · · Score: 5, Funny

    I had long feared that the skilled cryptographer Bruce Schneier, author of Applied Cryptography , had been utterly replaced by Bruce Schneier the security consultant who peddles his wares in all of his recent lightweight publications. It's nice to see the cryptographer return.

  2. A likely story by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    How do we know he's not just spinning a good yarn here?

  3. Re:Hax by The+Clockwork+Troll · · Score: 5, Funny

    Did you know your uid is a prime number when interpreted in base 7 or 11?

    How do you sleep at night?

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  4. Quick trick function stack by TiggertheMad · · Score: 5, Funny

    Personally, I'm waiting for the cypher built on Onefish, Twofish, Redfish, and Bluefish.

    I do not like it encrypting my stocks,
    I do not like it securing my box,
    I do not like it, sam-I-am.

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