29 Sep
2000
29 Sep
'00
11:50 a.m.
At 11:05 AM 9/29/00 -0400, Steve Thompson wrote:
To correct my ignorance on current cryptography issues, I have been browsing the archives. Some time ago, there was quite a bit of talk about the MISTY algorithm, although I did not chance upon any pointers to an actual implementation. Since the character of the messages which I did read seemed to be (loosely speaking) light-hearted, I cannot decide whether the algorithm is some sort of `in' joke, or whether it was a cryptographic algorithm which didn't `cut it' under peer review.
MISTY is a real algorithm developed (patented?) by Mitsubishi. I recall that it seemed optimized for hardware, rather DES-like. Caveat cryptor.