I'd like to thank everyone who shared their comments in
discussions here. Thanks to these discussions I have been able to
learn quicker than I would do on my own, even though my work [on VMPC]
has been mostly an individual one.
Thanks to these discussions and thanks to several people who also
shared their opinions, comment and results in private, I have been
able to improve my paper describing VMPC - the result of my 5-year
adventure with cryptography.
The paper has now been accepted for presentation at the FSE 2004
Conference in India (see
http://www.isical.ac.in/~fse2004/ , section
"Accepted Papers")
The FSE paper is a combined and style-refined version of the two
papers "VMPC One-Way Function" and "VMPC Stream Cipher". I will make
it available as soon as I can, also in LaTeX and DVI format, through
the VMPC website
http://www.vmpcfunction.com
All the best in 2004,
Bartosz Zoltak