phc-discussions - Re: [PHC] A review per day

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Message-ID: <33122794.20140830112513@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 11:25:13 +0200
From: Krisztián Pintér <pinterkr@...il.com>
To: discussions@...sword-hashing.net
Subject: Re: [PHC] A review per day - RIG

Solar Designer (at Saturday, August 30, 2014, 6:11:03 AM):
>> The XOR-ing over memory is an idea from Gambit that we talked about
>> quite a bit.
> I think this idea pre-dates Gambit, or do I miss something?

for me, the idea of xoring instead of overwriting came so naturally, i
don't even consider it an idea. in fact, it was like that in the first
draft. then i realized it might be unnecessary, and considered simple
overwrites. but i discovered a weakness of it, so i put xoring back.