From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754453AbYKCAdz (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Nov 2008 19:33:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754001AbYKCAdq (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Nov 2008 19:33:46 -0500 Received: from taverner.CS.Berkeley.EDU ([128.32.168.222]:59708 "EHLO taverner.cs.berkeley.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753987AbYKCAdq (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Nov 2008 19:33:46 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: not-for-mail From: daw@cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner) Newsgroups: isaac.lists.linux-kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: Add Skein hash algorithm variants Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 00:33:45 +0000 (UTC) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Message-ID: References: <20081102161506.GA21940@havoc.gtf.org> Reply-To: daw-news@cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner) NNTP-Posting-Host: taverner.cs.berkeley.edu X-Trace: taverner.cs.berkeley.edu 1225672425 7668 128.32.168.222 (3 Nov 2008 00:33:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@taverner.cs.berkeley.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 00:33:45 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Originator: daw@taverner.cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jeff Garzik wrote: >This is the first draft of the Skein hash algorithm that was recently >mentioned, as a prominent submission to NIST's SHA-3 competition. Adding Skein to the kernel makes no sense, from a cryptographic point of view, at this point in time. The appropriate point would be after it has been analyzed and vetted by crypto experts over a period of time. I suspect even the designers of Skein would advise you not to use the algorithm until other cryptographers have had a chance to examine it and it has been subjected to cryptanalysis over a period of time. The same goes for all new submissions to the NIST competition.