Re: CRC32 - thoughts on Gutmann response

[Ori Pessach <mail,AT,oripessach,DOT,com>]

Damion Wilson wrote:
> What do you mean "lack of response" ? There are two implementations of CIPE, 
> of which at least one of the maintainers has responded (me). I'm doing so 
> much email right now that I've had to stop programming.

I'm sorry. I don't use the Windows implementation, and while I was 
vaguely aware that you wrote it, and I've seen your messages, I didn't 
connect the two.

Mostly I meant that Olaf was conspicuously absent from the discussion, 
because I didn't see his reply until after I sent my message.

Having seen his response, I'm not sure what to think. At best, CIPE will 
go through a transition phase, when its maintainership will switch from 
Olaf as a primary author to someone else. I'd expect it to be a while 
before a fixed, usable version is released.

> Seriously, though, I think that we should give Olaf the benefit of the doubt 
> right now.

For what it's worth, I was pleased with his response. It is what I 
expected to see from a responsible developer, and I was a bit worried 
when I didn't see anything along those lines on this list for three days.

> And later, if he's no longer able to be involved in this, then
> maybe we make CIPE a bazaar-style development project, with a separate 
> protocol group so the real crypto people can bang their heads against it.

I don't know whether the CIPE developers ever tried to solicit comment 
from any of the crypto newsgroups/mailing lists, but it might be a good 
idea to do that in the future.

> Believe me, I'm paying very close attention.

I don't doubt that.

Best of luck to y'all,

Ori Pessach