Path: news.io.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!uknet!lyra.csx. + cam.ac.uk!rja14 From: rja14@cl.cam.ac.uk (Ross Anderson) Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: Re: Variable Size Block Ciphers Date: 21 Aug 1995 11:32:21 GMT Organization: U of Cambridge Computer Lab, UK Lines: 13 Message-ID: <419qs5$pej@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> References: <199508202317.SAA17442@tristero.io.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: nene.cl.cam.ac.uk ritter@io.com (Terry Ritter) writes: > For some time now I have been working with some apparently new > ciphering structures which I call "Variable Size Block Ciphers." > As the name suggests, these constructs can be made to cipher blocks > of essentially arbitrary size (typically in byte-size steps), > *without* changing the number of layers or "rounds" in the cipher. Two such ciphers appeared in 1993 - WAKE by David Wheeler and a proposal from Burt Kaliski and Matt Robshaw. They are both in `Fast Software Encryption', Springer LNCS 809 Ross