SHA-7 crypto patented by Italian Postal Service

Peter Gutmann pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Wed Mar 19 16:31:11 PDT 2014


"Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)" <lists at infosecurity.ch> writes:

>On italian government "innovation portal" it has been published a patent by
>the "Italian Postal Service" of SHA-7 : "The encryption SHA-7 allows to
>generate a unique “message digest” "
>
>LOL reading on http://italiainnovatori.gov.it/en/innovations/sha-7-2/

Is there any indication of what this SHA-7 is?  Before I pass judgement I'd
like to see a document from a technical writer rather than a generic press
release that potentially mangles beyond recognition what they've actually
done.

Peter.



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