phc-discussions - Re: [PHC] Security concern for Catena

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Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 23:04:45 +0100
From: Christian Forler <christian.forler@...-weimar.de>
To: discussions@...sword-hashing.net
Subject: Re: [PHC] Security concern for Catena

On 06.01.2014 22:02, Steve Thomas wrote:
> I was about to implement Catena with 1/2 the memory and faster vs the
> reference implementation.

Cool. I'm eager to see the performance benchmarks of your
implementation. Please contact me after you finished the implementation.


> When I noticed a bug in the reference code https://github.com/cforler/catena/pull/3 
> Basically you are doing the work of LAMBDA but getting the security of
> LAMBDA-1. So Catena-3 is like Catena-2.

Oops! Thanks a lot, I owe you one.

Best regards,
Christian



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