Re: What do you guys think about this?

Phil Scarratt <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.encryption.cipe
Organization Draxsen Technologies
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Sorry ... just rea the post and thought I'd better clarify:

Phil Scarratt wrote:
> Damion Wilson wrote:
> 
>> Alright. I've just seen this on Slashdot and a few things pissed me off:
>>
>> 1. CIPE has apparently been declared a "dead" project.
>>
> 
> Childish...

I'm referring to Gutmann's post here not DKW's comment

> 
>> 2. The cursory analysis by Peter Gutmann appears to have missed subtle 
>> things. For instance, CIPE primarily using Blowfish (and not IDEA).
>>
> 
> The man himself (Gutmann) includes blowfish and idea in his own crypt 
> stuff: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/cryptlib/main.html
> 
> I may well have missed something here but seems a little stupid (in his 
> words) to attack software that give the same choices (of algorithm) as 
> his?? But then again he's not really attacking the algorithm's 
> themselves (well he is attacking IDEA and DES/3DES indirectly).....
> 
> Still a rather childish tone....
> 
> Fil
> 
> 
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