ANN: NESSIE primitives in StreamSec Tools

From: QHenrick_Hellstr=F6m_=5BStreamSec=5D=22?= (henrick_at_REMOVEstreamsec.se)
Date: 02/27/05 

Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 19:31:03 +0100

New algorithms have been added to StreamSec Tools 3.0.0.245 which is now
available for subscribers.

   StreamSec Encryption Tools: Camellia
   StreamSec Hash Tools: Whirlpool

Camellia and Whirlpool are both part of the NESSIE tool box. NESSIE (New
European Schemes for Signatures, Integrity, and Encryption) is a project
within the Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme of the
European Commission (Key Action II, Action Line II.4.1).

I decided to add Whirlpool because of the recent results on SHA-1.
Whirlpool does not have any of the architectural flaws the Chinese
research team found in the MD and SHA hashes, and appears to be immune
against linear and differential cryptanalysis. This is no guarantee that
there are no other attacks against Whirlpool, but at the present it
seems likely that the SHA-2 hashes (SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512)
will be broken before Whirlpool. 

-- 
Henrick Hellström
www.streamsec.com