Truncated differential cryptanalysis of five rounds of Salsa20

[ciphergoth]

This is what I've been doing in my spare time for the last couple of weeks:

Truncated differential cryptanalysis of five rounds of Salsa20 (PDF)

(discussion, Wikipedia on Salsa20).

This doesn't break the whole cipher, just a seriously reduced version.

Comments

[ephermata.livejournal.com]

Nice. I look forward to reading it. Have you sent it to eprint.iacr.org yet?

[deliberateblank.livejournal.com]

drawing only strong criticism from Bernstein

The scepticism from others I can understand, but I wonder why that is considered relevant. Solid refutation yes, criticism, well he would say that wouldn't he?

[zellah.livejournal.com]

Am just going round poking invited people who haven't RSVPed in the direction of my Birfday Partyage post here (http://www.livejournal.com/users/exitwound/400211.html). Let me know if you think you can make it or not! :)

[shevek.livejournal.com]

I have papers for you.