The cr.yp.to microblog: 2013.01.17 11:29:03

2013.01.17 11:29:03 (291854640578953216) from Daniel J. Bernstein, replying to "Daniel Franke (@dfranke)" (291785556218769408):

@dfranke Two obvious examples: (1) Lightweight: ever tried putting a cipher onto an RFID? (2) Robust: see how these users are repeating IVs?

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2013.01.17 04:40:09 (291751738959073281) from "Daniel Franke (@dfranke)":

@hashbreaker I'm a little puzzled by the announcement of CAESAR. I don't understand the unfilled need. (1/2)

2013.01.17 06:40:15 (291781960664244224) from Daniel J. Bernstein, replying to "Daniel Franke (@dfranke)" (291751738959073281):

@dfranke We still don't have secure, applicable, robust secret-key crypto. See http://competitions.cr.yp.to/disasters.html for several examples of disasters.

2013.01.17 06:54:32 (291785556218769408) from "Daniel Franke (@dfranke)":

@hashbreaker Put another way: what need does CAESAR seek to fulfill which is not fulfilled already by crypto_secretbox_xsalsa20poly1305?