CDR: Re: Algorithm queston.

[David Honig]

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.