phc-discussions - Re: [PHC] Re: Mechanical tests

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Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 05:47:36 -0400
From: Bill Cox <waywardgeek@...il.com>
To: discussions@...sword-hashing.net
Subject: Re: [PHC] Re: Mechanical tests

On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 2:58 AM, Christian Forler
<christian.forler@...-weimar.de> wrote:
> On 05.04.2014 17:53, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>  [...]
>>
>> I'm not defending POMELO in any way, I havn't even looked at it yet.
>>
>> I'm just pointing out that while dieharder is a damn good too for
>> what it is designed for, it is not designed for what we're trying
>> to do here.
>
>
> A common use-case for a password hashing schemes is password based key
> derivation. Cryptographers assume that keys to be random. This
> assumption is crucial for the security of almost all cryptographic
> schemes. Therefore, (for an adversary) the output of a good password
> hashing scheme should be indistinguishable from random. Hence, dieharder
> is IMHO a valid sanity check tool.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Christian

In that case, you might be happy to know that Catena passed :-)

Bill