Re: SEAL cipher info requested (something actually list related!)
Christopher Allen writes:
At 4:27 PM 1/27/96, Anonymous wrote:
Anybody have info on the SEAL cipher? I can't find any descriptions or analysis of it. Refs, proceedings or URLS would be a good thing.
I also am interested in references to it.
I'm told that it was invented by a cryptographer at IBM, and that it patented, so that should help in the search.
Its a Don Coppersmith creation. It is blazingly fast. I believe it is patented.
Perry
Get Applied Cryptography!!! - Page 398 in issue 2. Source code on page 667 Brief - steam cipher. Phil Rogaway and Don Coppersmith @ IBM. uses "pseudo-random function family". Fast. Patented. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Dan Oelke Alcatel Network Systems droelke@aud.alcatel.com Richardson, TX
At 5:26 PM 3/5/96, Ted Anderson wrote:
As James Earl Jones would say: "It's in the Book".
At 6:57 PM 3/5/96, Bill Frantz wrote:
Try "Applied Cryptography, Second Edition", by Bruce Schneier
At 10:20 PM 3/5/96, Daniel R. Oelke wrote:
Get Applied Cryptography!!!
To all that keep telling me to use Applied Cryptography -- I have the book already (an autographed copy ;-) What I am seeking is more than what is in the book: * are there are any links on the web to SEAL? * is IBM actively marketing it? * what precisely is patent? * for how long? * has anyone currently licensed it? * has anyone tried attacking the algorithm? * should we be (the community) be looking at SEAL for standards (say as an alternative to RC4?)? * is there something better then SEAL available? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ..Christopher Allen Consensus Development Corporation.. ..<ChristopherA@consensus.com> 1563 Solano Avenue #355.. .. Berkeley, CA 94707-2116.. ..<http://www.consensus.com/> o510/559-1500 f510/559-1505..
Christopher Allen wrote: | * are there are any links on the web to SEAL? Ask Altavista. | * is IBM actively marketing it? See above. If you can't find it on the web, they're not actively marketing it. :) | * what precisely is patent? | * for how long? | * has anyone currently licensed it? | * has anyone tried attacking the algorithm? | * should we be (the community) be looking at SEAL | for standards (say as an alternative to RC4?)? | * is there something better then SEAL available? How about Blowfish? Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume
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