Room for more block ciphers?

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hello Morgon,

On Wednesday 31 May 2006 21:59, Morgon Kanter wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Somewhat recently, the gnu-crypto project got merged into Classpath.
> As I live in a cave underground and only come out once every few
> months, I was unaware of this and working on a few new block cipher
> implementations for gnu-crypto, using their old CVS sources.
>
> The old homepage of gnu-crypto said that they were looking for
> someone to add in the NESSIE phase 2 algorithms; this hasn't been
> done yet, from what I see in both the gnu-crypto and classpath CVS.
> I'd be happy to write implementations of these, but the obvious
> question is: would these, and other, new block ciphers even be wanted
> in Classpath? It looks like all of gnu-crypto was merged in, but the
> merge announcement contains the following:
>
> "[W]e would entertain reviving GNU Crypto if someone wanted to
> continue developing it for other purposes (that is, if you have a use
> for GNU Crypto outside of Classpath's more narrow goal of completing
> its JCE providers)"
>
> Which implies that further ciphers wouldn't be wanted or needed for
> Classpath. So, yes, my question is: would new block ciphers be wanted
> in Classpath?

i for one wouldn't be against adding new ciphers, especially the "focus" 
candidates in the eSTREAM project.


cheers;
rsn
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