Documentation blues

[Robin Lynn Frank]

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On Tuesday 24 June 2003 07:14 pm, Joseph Bruni wrote:
> >> I see, enforcing the use of RIPEMD160 and TWOFISH Instead of SHA1
> >> and whatever is esoteric.  But then again most folks don't have to
> >> deal with a security director who gets livid at the mention of SHA1
> >> or AES.  Well, come to think of it, maybe it is esoteric ;-) (Hope
> >> he doesn't see this)
>
> Whoa. What's wrong with SHA1 and AES?
>
>
Nothing that I know of, but our security director a bit unhappy when the =
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Gov't. did not select twofish.  I'm not sure how much of his position is=20
political and how much is technical.  I think a lot of his objection was =
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that any consideration was given to its ability to be used by devices wit=
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limited memory.  He felt it was a compromise that had no real merit.  We=20
humor him quite a lot ;-)

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Robin Lynn Frank
Director of Operations
Paradigm-Omega, LLC
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