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Re: WG last call for IPv4 MD5
> From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
> Yes! I object to giving Burt credit for Ron Rivest's hash function, and
> I object to the misspelling of his last name!
>
Sorry, name spelling of an unfamiliar person as it passes from my ears
to my fingers isn't one of my strong points. And, I could have screwed
up the interpretation. Maybe Rivest was at the meeting, too.
> Other than that, no objections; if the commentary is true I'm not
> about to argue with Kaliski, although frankly having glanced at it I'm
> not sure why MD5(MD5(text),key) would be stronger than MD5(text+key)
> given MD5's way of folding in new text into a hash. It would be nice
> to get some comments straight from the horse's mouth, as it
> were. Anyone remember Burt Kaliski's email address?
>
Well, in his message last month (forwarded by Housley), where he talked
about some of these issues, it was burt@rsa.com.
Bill.Simpson@um.cc.umich.edu