Re: The Pain of Cryptography

"Bartosz Zoltak" <QPbzoltak(without "QP")@vmpcfunction.com> wrote in message
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> This all is an interesting case. I read the three papers and I agree
> with what David said - although he overlooked the attack, what this
> situation tells us is that cryptanalysis indeed requires work of many
> people and time.
>
> David's report has a positively-biased tone, which suggests that he
> produced it not because he loved the idea of the cipher but because
> the company made an offer David couldn't reject. And I guess he did it
> fairly - found no success in the attacks he had chosen, said what the
> company wanted:

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I think the important thing to note is David didn't say the design was
secure.  He concluded that his inability to find a fault seems to suggest
the hypothesis is true.  I think trying to make David a sellout is very
unjust.

Tom