David Honig wrote:
>
> At 01:27 AM 4/4/00 PDT, nobuki nakatuji wrote:
> >[No real details seem to be available on the cipher. The illustrations
> >seem to show a fairly standard Feistel style arrangement. --Perry]
>
> They claim Camellia (love that name; someone should do a
> 'Monica' cipher) takes 10K gates. This
> is about twice what DES (using half the block size) requires. No doubt
> they have kept the small S boxes and used simple key schedule typical of
> hardware-optimized ciphers like DES. Will
> be interesting to see how they retained security in the face
> of such frugality.
Actually, to pick nits, DES requires less than 2800 gates.
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