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Turning your question on yourself, why do you think Threefish is not as good as Salsa20 or such? What about it makes you uneasy, and why?
by willvarfar 12y ago
Turning your question on yourself, why do you think Threefish is not as good as Salsa20 or such? What about it makes you uneasy, and why?
- tptacek 12y agoSalsa20 is better reviewed, it's faster, it's significantly simpler (Salsa20 is basically just a keyed hash core running in counter mode), it's a native stream cipher --- which is virtually always what you actually want --- and it's not idiosyncratic.