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It gets better... their "improved" version of "curl"? Kerl. You can't make this shit up.

by Buttes 9y ago

Aledgerly 9y ago
Kerl is Keccak I.E. SHA-3, the international NSA standard. They called it Kerl for fun in homage of Curl, which is still under active development with the absolute world-leading cryptographers of lightweight cryptography. Curl had to be invented to push LIGHTWEIGHT cryptography which is necessary for the Internet of Things. It's quite astonishing how much misinformation is spread around. https://blog.iota.org/iota-foundation-hires-cybercrypt-615d2df79001 https://blog.iota.org/iota-foundation-hires-cybercrypt-615d2...
- algorithmsRcool 9y ago
  I am very curious about what 'LIGHTWEIGHT' cryptography is defined as. I am also dubious about anyone that claims to have 'absolute world-leading cryptographers' since many strong cryptographers are quietly employed by intelligence agencies and most others are academics. Also, since we are being pedantic, SHA-3/Keccak is an NIST standard, which is a federal agency of the United States.
  - hobofan 9y ago
    I'm not an expert in the field, but there certainly have been efforts here and there to make "lightweight" crypto that needs little computational resources (and therefore battery power). One example would be KASUMI[0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KASUMI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KASUMI
- baby 9y ago
  SHA-3 is not an NSA standard. It was invented by Guido Bertoni, Joan Daemen, Michaël Peeters and Gilles Van Assche who are researchers at various companies/universities and are from Italy and Belgium. Your curl function is not even listed as one of the major lightweight crypto primitive on Lux' zoo: https://www.cryptolux.org/index.php/Lightweight_Hash_Functions https://www.cryptolux.org/index.php/Lightweight_Hash_Functio... Your post is full of shit.
- IncRnd 9y ago
  This kind of post doesn't work when cryptographers read it.
tuddman 9y ago
kerl comes from the fact it wraps & extends keccack hashing library. So the name is actually quite fitting.

It gets better... their "improved" version of "curl"? Kerl. You can't make this shit up.

by Buttes 9y ago

It gets better... their "improved" version of "curl"? Kerl. You can't make this shit up.

Kerl is Keccak I.E. SHA-3, the international NSA standard. They called it Kerl for fun in homage of Curl, which is still under active development with the absolute world-leading cryptographers of lightweight cryptography. Curl had to be invented to push LIGHTWEIGHT cryptography which is necessary for the Internet of Things. It's quite astonishing how much misinformation is spread around. https://blog.iota.org/iota-foundation-hires-cybercrypt-615d2df79001 https://blog.iota.org/iota-foundation-hires-cybercrypt-615d2...

algorithmsRcool 9y ago
I am very curious about what 'LIGHTWEIGHT' cryptography is defined as. I am also dubious about anyone that claims to have 'absolute world-leading cryptographers' since many strong cryptographers are quietly employed by intelligence agencies and most others are academics. Also, since we are being pedantic, SHA-3/Keccak is an NIST standard, which is a federal agency of the United States.
- hobofan 9y ago
  I'm not an expert in the field, but there certainly have been efforts here and there to make "lightweight" crypto that needs little computational resources (and therefore battery power). One example would be KASUMI[0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KASUMI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KASUMI
baby 9y ago
SHA-3 is not an NSA standard. It was invented by Guido Bertoni, Joan Daemen, Michaël Peeters and Gilles Van Assche who are researchers at various companies/universities and are from Italy and Belgium. Your curl function is not even listed as one of the major lightweight crypto primitive on Lux' zoo: https://www.cryptolux.org/index.php/Lightweight_Hash_Functions https://www.cryptolux.org/index.php/Lightweight_Hash_Functio... Your post is full of shit.
IncRnd 9y ago
This kind of post doesn't work when cryptographers read it.

tuddman 9y ago

kerl comes from the fact it wraps & extends keccack hashing library. So the name is actually quite fitting.