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Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-openpgp-camellia-00.txt

2007-11-27 08:55:07


David Crick <dacrick(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:

One could argue about adding 128-bit Twofish as well/instead,
as it's been around longer and also went through the deep AES
process scrutiny.  However, on Camellia's side, it is a post-AES
cipher, and so benefits from more recent insights / design
trade-offs, PLUS it has gone through the scrutiny of both
NESSIE and CRYPTREC.  In addition it's already implemented
(in both 128-bit and 256-bit lengths) in applications (e.g. the
Linux kernel and Firefox 3.0 [beta]).

I have no objection against your opinion that about Camellia.  It is
well designed cipher.  I mentioned that most important thing is that we
need 256-bit for some security reason for OpenPGP.

 http://www.imc.org/ietf-openpgp/mail-archive/msg20263.html

One outstanding question I see: have we ever had a reply back
from NTT giving an IPR statement SPECIFICALLY for OpenPGP, as
requested by Hironobu SUZUKI here?

Yes.  I already have discussed about it with a NTT person who is a team
leader of Camellia project. They will give an IPR for OpenPGP.

Regards,

---
Hironobu SUZUKI <hironobu at h2np dot net>
Tokyo, Japan.
http://h2np.net