Bruce Schneier wrote in sci.crypt :

In article <505bms$2m1@kadri.ut.ee>, sander@haldjas.folklore.ee (Sander Vesik) wrote:

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Bruce Schneier (schneier@counterpane.com) wrote: : Tiger is a one-way hash function designed by Eli Biham and Ross Anderson. : It is optimized for a 64-bit chip (DEC Alpha). While interesting, Tiger : is very new, completely unanalyzed (except by the authors), and hence : still suspect. On the other hand, it's lightning fast on 64-bit machines.

: Wired is displaying typical uneducated hype in its mention. I recommend : that everyone look at Tiger, but that no one use it yet.

It is round 2.3 times faster than MD5 on my Pentium - so the part about high speed on the 32bit chips also seems to hold.

It is certainly fast, and it is definitely not your typical snake oil. It's just a mistake to start using an algorithm immediately after it is published.

Bruce

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