Symmetric Crypto Overhaul

Description

Options for using sponge/duplex/permutation crypto like Strobe/Disco; non-HMAC hashing; and reducing hashing by combining the KDF and transcript-hashing chains, and perhaps coalescing multiple hash inputs per hash block.

Status

Current proposals center on "Stateful Hash Object" API, see references below.

Documents

SHO

Disco: Noise with Strobe

Dependencies

None

References (newest first)

https://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/noise/2018/001862.html

https://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/noise/2018/001876.html

https://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/noise/2018/001484.html

https://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/noise/2018/001482.html

https://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/noise/2017/001402.html

https://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/noise/2017/001122.html