Re: [PATCH] AES x86-64-asm impl.

From: Lee Revell
Date: Mon Oct 04 2004 - 16:24:33 EST


On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 15:26, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Jari Ruusu wrote:
> > Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:
> >
> >>On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 15:20:43 +0300, Jari Ruusu
> >>I understand that, I still don't understand the reaseon.
> >>But hey, feel free to ignore my question ;)
> >
> >
> > You haven't looked at cryptoloop security, have you?
> >
> > No sane person wants to be accociated with that kind of broken and
> > backdoored scam. I certainly don't.
> >
> Would you be happy if the code were wrapped as a general use package
> like blowfish, or have you decided that because one part of Linux
> doesn't meet your standards you don't want to allow any of your code to
> be used in it?
>

Please check the archives, Jari's reasons are well documented. I cannot
summarize the technical issues here as IANA cryptographer but please,
let's not start that thread again.

Lee

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