Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 16:58:59 -0300 (BRT)
From: Marcos Antonio Simplicio Junior <mjunior@...c.usp.br>
To: discussions@...sword-hashing.net
Subject: Re: [PHC] A review per day - RIG

Well, for the sake of clarity the idea of using reduced-round primitives is not ours either, but (AFAIK) came from "J. Daemen and V. Rijmen. A new MAC construction Alred and a specifi.c instance Alpha-mac. In Fast Software Encryption . FSE'05, pages 1.17, 2005." 

In Lyra2, we basically adapted it to Blake2b . 

BR, 

Marcos. 

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> De: "Dmitry Khovratovich" <khovratovich@...il.com>
> Para: discussions@...sword-hashing.net
> Enviadas: Segunda-feira, 1 de Setembro de 2014 8:27:05
> Assunto: Re: [PHC] A review per day - RIG

> If you want to give a proper credit to the bit-reversal permutation
> in the context of time-space tradeoffs, then it must be given first
> to Lengauer and Tarjan (STOC'79,
> http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=800135.804420 ), who explored
> and proved the lower bound for the 1-layer case. The bit-reversal
> permutation itself has been widely used even earlier, e.g. in the
> context of FFT.

> Best regards,
> Dmitry

> On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 12:01 AM, Bill Cox <
> waywardgeek@...hershed.org > wrote:

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> > As far as I can tell, RIG is a quick rewrite of Catena, using
> > Lyra2's
> 
> > hash function, and Gambit's XOR-ing over data. The combination is
> 
> > original, but that's all. If the paper said, "We have combined
> > these
> 
> > three good ideas and thing the result is superior", then I would be
> > OK
> 
> > with it. For example, someone needs to plug Lyra2's ultra-fast
> > sponge
> 
> > into Gambit. Mixing ideas is fine. I just think it's weird pasting
> 
> > three ideas from the forum together without crediting the sources
> 
> > properly. It almost seems like they attempted to obfuscate their
> 
> > sources. The paper and code are all original (mostly), so there's
> > no
> 
> > plagiarism here. You can't copyright an idea. However, it's
> 
> > offensive to use other's ideas and pretend they are your own. All
> 
> > that is needed to fix RIG, IMO, is some proper credit to where they
> 
> > got their ideas, and a rewrite of their paper to be less dick-ish.
> 

> > For example, here's a statement in the RIG paper:
> 

> > "Therefore, it is recommended in [6] to have password-independent
> 
> > memory access patterns for a password hashing scheme. We have
> 
> > attempted to follow this requirement using bit reversal
> > permutation."
> 

> > Why not credit Catena for the bit reversal pattern while they were
> > at
> 
> > it? Did they actually rip off Lyra2's hash function and not give
> > them
> 
> > credit? Multiple entries use the XOR-ing thing, so I have less
> 
> > trouble with that, but it follows a pattern...
> 

> > RIG's single-round Blake2b hash function happens to be identical to
> 
> > what Lyra2 uses. They either both copied the exact same text from
> > the
> 
> > exact same source, or RIG's hash function was actually copied from
> > Lyra2.
> 

> > The XOR-ing over memory is an idea from Gambit that we talked about
> 
> > quite a bit. Now that I've found that writing to a memory location
> 
> > just read from is quite fast compared to writing to a different
> 
> > location, I am a fan.
> 

> > Anyway, I feel RIG = Catena + Lyra2's hash + Gambit's XOR. This is
> 
> > likely a good combination, but I have to feel for the Catena,
> > Lyra2,
> 
> > and Gambit authors when their work is not credited properly. I
> 
> > haven't done much analysis of the RIG code because it bothers me to
> 
> > read it... for example the memory swapping algorithm that the
> > Catena
> 
> > guys invented fairly recently is there...
> 

> > Anyway, RIG is the last entry I'm posting about today!
> 

> > Bill
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> --

> Best regards,
> Dmitry Khovratovich
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