Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ABC (block cipher)


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The result was   delete. Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:05, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

ABC (block cipher)

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While I can verify the author's involvement in the cryptographic community, there is no indication for notability of the algorithm at all. Note: Not to be confused with ABC (stream cipher), ABC (Accumulated Block Chaining), and ABC (Advanced Block Cipher). Honest statement by the author in his paper: "The author assumes that the expanded SAFER diffusion layer is MDS (Maximum Distance Separable) which, if proven, would be the only new thing in this paper." – Suggest deletion. Nageh (talk) 23:11, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete I'm the article's creator. I understand notability better now than I did back when I wrote it. I've never been able to find even one secondary source discussing the subject. It shouldn't be here—sorry. Ntsimp (talk) 01:14, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
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 * Delete for lack of independent coverage. There are very few hits in Google scholar for this, and most of them seem to lead back through Wikipedia, so I was unable to find anything that would function as an adequate source. —David Eppstein (talk) 22:28, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
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