Digression

[jamesd at echeque.com]

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On 16 Aug 2001, at 13:17, Morlock Elloi wrote:

> Sorry to bother the audience with purely crypto issues, I just 
wonder if anyone
> else evaluated this Ferguson's paper on apparent simplicity and 
therefore
> insecurity of Rijndael:
>
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~vorpal/pubs/rdalgeq.html

"and therefore insecurity"

Does not follow.

I would argue that rather the simpler, the stronger.  A simple 
structure, if it can be broken, would have simple breaks.

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