At 11:36 PM 10/2/00 -0400, Vin McLellan wrote:
Paulo Barreto <paulo.barreto@terra.com.br> quipped:
Or it might not have occurred to everyone to prepare just-in-case releases for each of the finalists and wait for NIST's verdict ;-)
Yeah, I thought of that too;-) The NTRU folk, however, didn't wait for today's announcement to place their bet.
While I'm not aware of many companies doing anything about it, it's not really that tough - all of the algorithms had relatively similar parameters and sizes and calling requirements, and they were required to provide reference editions. So you should be able to write a couple of routines like aes_keyschedule(parm1, parm2...) aes_encrypt(*key, data) aes_decrypt(*key, data) and plug in the reference editions with some format-munger glue. Tuning the algorithms for your hardware and software environment is more work, and maybe you want to wait till there's a winner, but you get to claim you were way ahead of the curve by announcing support the day of the announcement... Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639