teatotal: Thread: TEA used for hashing in MS Xbox

Interesting to note that the original version of the TEA algorithm was used
as a hash function to verify an initial boot loader in the Microsoft Xbox,
and was cracked in few days by the Linux Xbox hackers, with help from folks
at sci.crypt.

Here's a google link to sci.crypt that summarizes the issues (caution mail
may wrap the link):
http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=3da726d3.6357463
54%40west.usenetserver.com


I guess I don't know enough about crytpo to know how this impacts TEA as an
encryption algorithm, but as a hash function it is very poor, certainly the
first version.

This link has some comments on the weaknesses of TEA and TEA as a hash
function:
http://www.theorem.com/java/tea/

Thought maybe the folks in this list might be interested in these
developments.

-Steve